“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne” — Laurie Stevens Copy Share Image
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane 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
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
“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
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
“You right,” Hawk said. “Couldn’t happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress.” “Exactly,” I said. “Impossible.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Normally, I don't take to drinking so early in the morning, but I bend the rules when I get my ass kicked… — C.J. Fella Copy Share Image
Where are we? (Jericho) Noir’s happy place. It’s where he brings the beings he wants to play with. (Asmodeus) Punish. (Jericho) You… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
“Running is easy… but doesn’t dull the pain” she whispered with a sigh and touched the spot where her heart was. “I… — Suilyaniz Cintron 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
“Can you analyze our relationship in the light of Silvermanian pragmatism?” I said. “I love you because I find it compelling to… — 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
“He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“Lots of cops married nurses, Tallow knew. Nurses understood the life: murderous shiftwork, long stretches of boredom, sudden adrenaline spikes, blood everywhere.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create… — Anonymous 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
“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
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“But suspense presupposes uncertainty. No matter how nightmarish the situation, real suspense is impossible when we know in advance that the protagonist… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people—relatives, friends, police officers, reporters… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Whatever you did, and whoever you killed, and however you feel about it, you have to judge all of that in context.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather. There is a man with wings like a bird.. there is… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
God made Cabernet Sauvignon, whereas the Devil made Pinot Noir. — Andre Tchelistcheff Copy Share Image
“I’m sleeping with a Harvard grad,” I said. “The Emory of the North,” Becker said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You and Galileo,” I said. “Didn’t he throw his balls off the leaning tower?” Quirk Said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“...smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“His voice was the elaborately casual voice of the tough guy in pictures. Pictures have made them all like that.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
