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
writing thinking paper
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.
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.
benefit cleaner contact easier easy
Things are easier to find, things are clearer, sharper, cleaner and it's easy to contact members. It's a benefit to all members.
boxing hollywood movies
Most Hollywood boxing movies are metaphors. Your movie is not a metaphor. It's really about boxing.
biggest strength
I think my biggest strength is my versatility.
easy intentions movies noble reviewed
So many movies are reviewed off their intentions, and noble intentions are fine, but I think that's an easy version.
father great grew tv watching
My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too.
american-director matter perceived subject
What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago.
anywhere people time
We're not going anywhere and it's time people know that we're here.
american-director business hopefully inevitably means people showing taking time
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.
american-director guy oh
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.
american-director interested next time
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.
american-director good somebody
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.