Walter Hill

“I like spare, clean dialogue.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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