Samuel Fuller Quotes

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• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.
• Film is a battleground.
• 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…
• A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.
• Surviving is the only glory in war
• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense
• 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. Just…
• You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought…
• 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…
• I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.
• 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 cent,…
• If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.
• A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
• 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 double-cross,…
• The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.
• If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!
• We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.
• Heroes? Don't believe in them.
• Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
• Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

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