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Walter Hill Biography

Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for his action films and revival of the Western genre. He has directed such films as The Warriors, Hard Times, The Driver, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs. and its sequel Another 48 Hrs., Red Heat, Last Man Standing, Undisputed, and Bullet to the Head, as well as writing the Steve McQueen crime drama The Getaway. He has also directed several episodes of television series such as Tales from the Crypt and Deadwood and produced the Alien films.

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

Form, Graphic, Graphic Novels, Interest, Novel, Offers

It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.

Book, Kids, Kind, Serious, Simplicity, Trivial

I don't much like looking back.

Back, Like, Looking, Looking Back

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.

Action, Encourage, Exciting, Nature, Producers

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.

Action, Bother, Directors, Thinking, Work, Writing

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 certain rules in a way that I don't find dramatically helpful. The imperviousness can be too much.

Against, Helpful, Imperviousness, Superhero, Tea, Too Much

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

Back, Confusing, Look, Looks, Tend

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

Boxing, Movie, Wanted

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

Book, Comic, Fan, Fans, Graphic, Loved

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 35 years ago, or what's especially pleasant is if you're talking about some movie that you did 35 years ago and they're 20 years old.

Old, People, Sake, Somebody, Talking, Years

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

Action, Drama, Extraordinary, Human, Situation, Situations

I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.

Fantastic, Hero, Leaving, Think, Thinking

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.

Famous, Fear, Hero, Make, Men, Survive

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.

Men, People, Pleasure, Say, Years

I liked Batman because he was more grounded. I never liked Superman much or Captain Marvel or Shazam.

Batman, Captain, Captains, Grounded, Liked, Shazam

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 office films. Other people wanting to be more sensitive to you want to talk about the ones that maybe didn't make a lot of money, but they think you might have a special feeling about. And then other people sometimes want to help you by suggesting that you should have done this or that in the movie, that that would have helped you a great deal in whatever capacity.

Films, Office, Should Have, Talk, Think, Thinking

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

Black, Credibility, Giving, Men, Naturally, Serious

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.

Certain, Cinema, Currently, Kind, Thinking

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

Aliens, Direct, Excited, Movies, Offer, Offers