Always Quote by Werner Herzog

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right…

— David Lynch

“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

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

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

— Claire Denis

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…

— Anonymous

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

— James Ellroy

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

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

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

— Francis Lawrence

You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods…

— George Clooney

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in…

— Carl Jung

I grew up on film noir.

— Lynne Ramsay