Needs Quote by Lawrence Block

I love noir, quite obviously.

— Laura van den Berg

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

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

— Elliott Colla

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

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

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 was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I…

— Frank Miller

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them…

— Roger Ebert

“Noir comme le désir d'être”

— Noct

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

— Claire Denis

When my French side thinks of 'bohemian,' it imagines Montparnasse authors and absinthe - that kind of aesthetic. The American definition might be more…

— Camille Rowe

“Both are also examples of film noir, a postwar genre commonly understood (even to the point of cliché) as being aesthetically and ideologically driven…

— Sianne Ngai