Samuel Fuller

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good…

— Samuel Fuller

Live, you son of a bitch. You're gonna live if I have to blow your brains out.

— Samuel Fuller

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

— Samuel Fuller

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

— Samuel Fuller

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

— Samuel Fuller

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of…

— Samuel Fuller

Film is a battleground.

— Samuel Fuller

Surviving is the only glory in war

— Samuel Fuller

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…

— Samuel Fuller

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts.…

— Samuel Fuller

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

— Samuel Fuller

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

— Samuel Fuller

There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

— Samuel Fuller

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets…

— Samuel Fuller

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

— Samuel Fuller

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

— Samuel Fuller

The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.

— Samuel Fuller

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every…

— Samuel Fuller

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

— Samuel Fuller

When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I…

— Samuel Fuller

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

— Samuel Fuller

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

— Samuel Fuller

If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

— Samuel Fuller

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

— Samuel Fuller