Walter Hill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
-
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
-
I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
-
Smarter is always the answer.
-
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.
-
There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
-
The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
-
I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
-
My first thought is always of light.
-
I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
-
It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
-
I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
-
I think higher education is over-regulated.
-
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
-
The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
-
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
-
When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
-
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
-
I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
