Daily Inspiration Quote by Walter Hill

Hill’s line has the casual shrug of a working director, but it carries a whole philosophy of craft: revision isn’t repentance, it’s expansion. “Change Geronimo a bit” sounds modest, almost offhand, yet the follow-up is the tell: “it will be made a longer version.” He’s not fantasizing about a different movie so much as a roomier one. In a business where “director’s cut” can mean either artistic salvation or bloated vanity, Hill frames it as something practical: the fix is more time, more breathing space, more connective tissue.

The context matters. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) landed in an era when mid-budget adult dramas were still viable, but the studio-driven runtime math was already tightening. Hill’s career sits right on that fault line; he’s a lean storyteller (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.) who also understands how movies get trimmed into clarity and, sometimes, into bluntness. With Geronimo, the historical and moral complexity of colonial violence, military bureaucracy, and Apache resistance can’t always survive a brisk runtime. “Longer” here reads like a quiet admission that some nuance got left on the floor.

Subtextually, it’s also a tactful way to claim authorship without picking a fight. He doesn’t blame the studio, the edit, or the market. He suggests a director’s instinct: if the movie missed, it wasn’t because the core was wrong, but because the audience didn’t get enough of it. That’s a very Hill move: fix the rhythm, widen the canvas, let the story earn its weight.