Hill said in an interview that "every film I've done has been a Western", and elaborated in another that "the Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hill_(director)
... writing the Steve McQueen crime drama The Getaway (1972).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7S2ixbILSE
