Walter Hill Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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My first thought is always of light.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
