Walter Hill
Walter Hill
Major General Walter Pitts Hendy Hill CB CMG DSOwas a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Fusiliers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 January 1942
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
talking years people
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.
hero thinking leaving
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.
book comic novel
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.
book kids simplicity
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.
interest novel graphic
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.
reality mundane reality-of-life
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.
thinking kind problem
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.
mean thinking criticism
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
confusing looks
I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
looking-back
I don't much like looking back.
superhero tea helpful
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.
fear hero men
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.
writing
I get a great high from writing.
writing want directors
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.