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
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. — 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
