Walter Hill Quotes
Born: January 10, 1942
Walter Hill, a master of hard-boiled cinema and storytelling, forged his legacy in the crucible of life’s rawest truths. As a director and screenwriter, his philosophy distilled wisdom from the grit of survival—loyalty, honor, and the quiet code of men under pressure. His quotes resonate because they strip away pretense, offering stark clarity on resilience, consequence, and the human condition. Hill’s voice speaks to those who have faced the fire and emerged with scars, not surrender. In a world of noise, his words are a steady hand on the shoulder, reminding us that the deepest lessons are often the simplest.
Walter Hill Quotes (21)
"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."
— Walter Hill"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."
— Walter Hill"I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives."
— Walter Hill"I don't much like looking back."
— Walter Hill"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."
— Walter Hill"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."
— Walter Hill"Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall."
— Walter Hill"I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan."
— Walter Hill"I've always wanted to do a boxing movie."
— Walter Hill"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."
— Walter Hill"Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility."
— Walter Hill"I always say the next one is my favorite."
— Walter Hill"I tend not to look back. It's confusing."
— Walter Hill"You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences."
— Walter Hill"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."
— Walter Hill"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."
— Walter Hill"I get a great high from writing."
— Walter Hill"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."
— Walter Hill"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
— Walter Hill"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
— Walter Hill"Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it."
— Walter Hill