Walter Hill

“I think the American Western laid down the rules of cinematic storytelling.”

“The best action movies are the ones that are driven by character.”

“You're not a real director until you've been fired.”

“I have always been drawn to the notion of the outsider, the man who is out of time and out of place.”

“I don't think I'm a stylist. I'm just trying to tell the story as clearly as I can.”

“You have to have a certain amount of arrogance to be a director.”

“I like spare, clean dialogue.”

“I believe in the mystery of movies. I don't want to know everything.”

“Every film I've made has been a Western.”

“In a career, you have to be persistent.”

“I like characters that are not paragons of virtue.”

“To be a successful director, you have to be very, very good or very, very lucky. I think you have to be both.”

“All the films are personal. I'm not going to make a film about a subject I'm not interested in.”