Hal Needham

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

— Hal Needham

Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who…

— Hal Needham

There's a standard pay scale for stunts. The more difficult the stunt, the more money involved. But if I'm the only stuntman…

— Hal Needham

Trying to get it together with me as a director was impossible. No one wanted to work with me.

— Hal Needham

'Death Car' was shot on a freeway that's under construction. It's called 'Chips' Freeway' because it's where they shoot the NBC series.…

— Hal Needham

Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well.

— Hal Needham

As far as I know, there is only one other director who was a stuntman - guy named Chuck Bail who directed…

— Hal Needham

I could jump out of this window feet first, which would be the safe way. But the way I'd do it would…

— Hal Needham

We try to reduce the danger to a minimum, of course. And then we prepare for accidents with alternate plans. For instance,…

— Hal Needham

You've gotta be careful. People don't want to be reminded of Vietnam and Korea. We lost thousands of fine young men and…

— Hal Needham

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

— Hal Needham

The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.

— Hal Needham

I have a country-boy sense of humor. I come from a poor family, and I have no education. But I am Middle…

— Hal Needham

Here's the thing that I think really pushed me, was my versatility. Because when I came in to the movie business, all…

— Hal Needham

I hate sequels.

— Hal Needham

I don't think I've had a better friend than Burt Reynolds. I could ask him for almost anything, and he would have…

— Hal Needham

I'm too old and too rich to do any more stunts.

— Hal Needham

Stunts have to be meticulously arranged. Choreographed. You could take a fight scene and set it to music.

— Hal Needham

I didn't want to limit my income so I decided to master all aspects of stunting.

— Hal Needham

I love horses, and when the SPCA tells me off I get real mad because I know more about horses than they…

— Hal Needham

When people say Evel's a stuntmen I want to throw up. He's nothing but a daredevil idiot. The only reason he's famous…

— Hal Needham

Of course when you toss a stick of dynamite at a cartoon character, he can come back to life again in the…

— Hal Needham

There's no more fun. All that digital stuff - we used to do that crap for real! I hate that stuff. Young…

— Hal Needham

There ain't a director in town who knows action better than I do. That's not just braggadocio on my part. I've been…

— Hal Needham

A man can abuse his body a lot more than a woman can. And that's a fact.

— Hal Needham