Quotes from Walter Hill

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

So I say to you as an audience, if you wanna feel sorry, feel sorry for the people in Syria, but don't feel sorry for film directors.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

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.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

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

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.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

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

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

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

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

I don't much like looking back.

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.