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.
I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost… - Walter Hill
I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost…
- Walter Hill
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations. - Walter Hill
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.
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 fa… - Walter Hill
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 fa…
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 … - Walter Hill
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 …
I tend not to look back. It's confusing. - Walter Hill
I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious successes; the big box off… - Walter Hill
Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious successes; the big box off…
I'm not even against superheroes. It's not my cup of tea. But there's just this endless stream of them and they are so repetitious and suspend certai… - Walter Hill
I'm not even against superheroes. It's not my cup of tea. But there's just this endless stream of them and they are so repetitious and suspend certai…
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. - Walter Hill
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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. - Walter Hill
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.
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