Contemporary Quote by Brian De Palma

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think…

— James Ellroy

I think noir is an immensely powerful - and elastic - lens through which to look at narrative and character. It seems to access…

— Richard K. Morgan

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 love noir, quite obviously.

— Laura van den Berg

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

— Jeff Goldblum

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book…

— Otto Penzler

“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that the world…

— Francis M. Nevins

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

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where…

— Werner Herzog

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

I grew up on film noir.

— Lynne Ramsay