Noir Quotes
53 Noir quotes by 41 unique authors
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Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
— Anthony Mackie
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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up…
— Frank Miller
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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 I've…
— James Ellroy
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That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind…
— Neko Case
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I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I first…
— Frank Miller
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Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride…
— Sheri Holman
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One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in…
— Roger Ebert
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The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero…
— Frank Miller
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It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.
— Rob Thomas
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You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see it? (Delphine) Spoken…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It’s the headiest of concoctions. (Noir) I personally feel that way toward blood. No better smell…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Are you always this random? (Jericho) Mostly. It really irritates Noir. Which is just an added bonus for me. At least so long as I…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Where are we? (Jericho) Noir’s happy place. It’s where he brings the beings he wants to play with. (Asmodeus) Punish. (Jericho) You say ta-mah-to. I…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally wouldn’t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I can’t believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it…
— Simon R. Green
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I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne…
— Emma Forrest
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In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.
— Dennis Lehane
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I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained…
— Lana Wachowski
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I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence,…
— Brian De Palma
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can…
— Larry Wachowski
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