"Ninety-five per cent of films are born of……" — Samuel Fuller
"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, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express."
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22 Quotes by Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller has 22 quotes on this site.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.
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Film is a battleground.
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going.…
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A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.
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Surviving is the only glory in war
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense
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When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in…
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You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if…
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When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it…
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I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.
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If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.
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A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think.…
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited…
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
— Joseph Addison
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's…
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