Character Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

— Claire Denis

I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.

— Francis Lawrence

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 though you're…

— Danny Boyle

I really got into film noir was when I was supposed to play Orson Welles in a movie.

— Jacob Elordi

So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.

— Tony Todd

To me, the most interesting approach to film noir is subjective. The genre is really all about not knowing what's going on around you,…

— Christopher Nolan

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters,…

— Duncan Jones

I love noir, quite obviously.

— Laura van den Berg

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.

— Kim Ji-woon

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

— Samuel Fuller

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel…

— Lawrence Kasdan

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right…

— David Lynch