"I tend not to look back. It's confusing."
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"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."
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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
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"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."
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"Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility."
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"I've always wanted to do a boxing movie."
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"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."
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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
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"You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences."
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"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."
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"Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall."
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"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."
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"I get a great high from writing."
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"I don't much like looking back."
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"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."
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"I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers."
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