Detectives Quote by Thomas Jane

I love noir, quite obviously.

— Laura van den Berg

I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.

— Francis Lawrence

I grew up on film noir.

— Lynne Ramsay

You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'

— Lesley Sharp

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

— Robert Rodriguez

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

— Karla Crome

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

— Richard K. Morgan

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

— Claire Denis

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

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