Walter Hill Quotes
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.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
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You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don't overplay the race issue. It's insulting to those of us who are merely vain.
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I think one of the toughest things is that balancing act of trying to maintain relationships while being on the road.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.
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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.
