I’ve always wanted to do a boxing movie.

All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you’ve got a joke, can it be funnier? If you’ve got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That’s the nature of being a producer.

I wouldn’t not want to be a director and write as I wouldn’t not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

I tend not to look back. It’s confusing.

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he’s about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero’s calm and a coward’s resolve to survive at any price.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we’ve made a very modest movie.

Well, I’m about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I’ve made one that’s actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

I’m doing my best. I read in the paper that I’m an action director. They always say that, “Action director Walter Hill”, if they bother writing about me at all. I think that’s fine. I’m happy to do the work.

There’s a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that’s also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.