Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible. — Kim Ji-woon Copy Share Image
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ,” she said. “You are just like him, a master of the fucking oblique answer.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne” — Laurie Stevens Copy Share Image
“I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features. — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?” I said. Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. “Exploit the… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
“It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Mass. Ave. Bridge is open... Some MIT students once measured it by repeatedly placing an undergraduate named Smoot on the ground… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
“He's prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There's a shiny streak down one side of his face. "I… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“I put my arms around her and closed my eyes and put my cheek against the top of her head and stood… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The rain beat against the windows and against the tin roof of the hotel. It came down in hissing roars, then in… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
“The women looked naked, in a way that women never do in skin magazines. These women were real, with the fine roughening… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
“A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.” — Scott B. Smith Copy Share Image
I really got into film noir was when I was supposed to play Orson Welles in a movie. — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
