I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Live, you son of a bitch. You're gonna live if I have to blow your brains out. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other.… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
