“Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It… — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
“I’ve just been wandering the streets at night. If I came by a German soldier out alone, I would follow him, shove… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“ Conversation between Susan's therapist and Spenser - "And when you find her? Then what?" "Then she will be free again to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“From Chapter 1: The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
“Ten minutes out of the city I made Hawk stop the car and I threw up on the side of the road.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
“Since when do you and I talk about the world,” she said. “The world is what it is.” “Yeah, I know.” “Not… — Robert B. Parker 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
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire… — Chris F. Holm Copy Share Image
“Later, early Christmas morning, I was still awake, and Susan was asleep, on her back, with her mouth open slightly. I looked… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“You walked a mile in the rain to drink hot water?” “To be with you,” she said. “You’re better than pie.” And… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“Fine by me, Jack. I just have to plug in the machine. The City will have to change its name to Sunny… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“Pulling out onto the highway I noticed a stone pillar commemorating the Donner Party. They were a true testament to the American… — Josh Stallings Copy Share Image
“Susan said. “Kindness is not dangerous. You have found a way to work and live which allows you to integrate the violence… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“One time, she waddled out and showed Peg her bandages from her last suicide attempt, which invokes sympathy in some, but usually… — David James Keaton Copy Share Image
Blade Runner's just a noir at the end of the day. Rosemary's Baby is about the fear of having a child and… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
“And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“The arctic pavement turned into a whirlwind of viscous blood. The fiery shadows on the metropolitan walls blitzed him, avenging overachievers starved… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
Are you always this random? (Jericho) Mostly. It really irritates Noir. Which is just an added bonus for me. At least so… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can’t hit anything with it, not at that distance.” Staring at… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah.… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
“It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Kraop was the sound that I heard. Heard it twice--kraop, kraop--one time each for my two fingers that got broke. I heard… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
“When I heard the gunshots, though, I knew - knew beyond the shadow of a doubt - that somewhere in Los Angeles… — Richard Valley Copy Share Image
“IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew… — Matthew McBride Copy Share Image
You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
