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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by Simon Bland

‘Gangs charged us $200 a night to shoot on their turf’: Walter Hill on making cult film The Warriors

‘The studio never understood’ … The Warriors, with Deborah Van Valkenburgh on the right.
‘The studio never understood’ … The Warriors, with Deborah Van Valkenburgh on the right. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy

Walter Hill, director

I thought Sol Yurik’s 1965 novel, The Warriors, would work well as a film but I told Larry Gordon [the producer]: “Nobody will ever let us make it. We’d have to shoot at night in New York, and it doesn’t lend itself to star casting.” I turned it down and went to do a western but the finance fell apart. Larry came back and asked if I was still interested.

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