Walter Hill Quotes
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Funny is an attitude.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was 'Waltz With Bashir,' or 'The Gatekeepers,' or '5 Broken Cameras.'
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
