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
“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
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science… — Thomas Jane 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
“The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast,… — Robert B. Parker 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
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
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
“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
“A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana,… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
“Susan said. “You ought to not forget that whoever you killed last year, there were people you could have killed and didn’t.”… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“Rachel drank some more bourbon. “What I am trying to do,” she said, “is to thank you. And to say it as… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“The remaining chain swung down, he wrenched the door out and he was free. The last thing he heard behind him was… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Because I love you,” I said. “Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans… — Christos Gage Copy Share Image
There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?” “What kind of question is that?” “A yes or no one.” — Todd Morr Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for… — Olivier Megaton Copy Share Image
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
“The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.” — Timothy Holme Copy Share Image
'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
“All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid. ("New York… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! — Marie Windsor Copy Share Image
You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.' — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
“There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.” — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“The ways of the Lord,” I said, “are often dark, but never pleasant.” “Adler?” “Theodor Reik, I think.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
