"When I was making these damned pictures, I……" — Samuel Fuller
"When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is."
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22 Quotes by Samuel Fuller
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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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I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.
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Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening…
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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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