Walter Hill Quotes

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it just feels like you're sort of watching a reenactment of previous episodes?

I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

When dealing with HBO, you actually are dealing with real filmmakers.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.

If you want to show cinema, make entertainment films. Sometimes they are very good, sometimes very bad, but the intention is always to make entertaining films.

If you're a filmmaker who grew up wanting to make a movie for people to have that female experience of sitting in the theater together, it's hard to do unless you can compete with the bigger spectacles that are being offered to them.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.