Samuel Fuller Quotes

• Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

  Samuel Fuller

  Black And White, Color, Life Is

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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.

  Samuel Fuller

  Couple, Giving, Garbage

  Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf

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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 front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it

  Samuel Fuller

  Moving, Feet, Next

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• A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

  Samuel Fuller

  Hate, Violence, Action

  "Director's Cut", www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.

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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 bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

  Samuel Fuller

  Ambition, Men, Frustration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

  Samuel Fuller

  Trying, Language, Sometimes

  Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf

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• A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

  Samuel Fuller

  Scripts, Cigar, Motion Pictures

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• I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

  Samuel Fuller

  Hate, Violence, Film

  Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf

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• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  Samuel Fuller

  War, Glory, Surviving

  "Fictional character: Zab". "The Big Red One", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Heroes? Don't believe in them.

  Samuel Fuller

  Believe, Hero, Crafts

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• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

  Samuel Fuller

  Common Sense, Use, Pistols

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• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  Samuel Fuller

  Movie, Inspiring, Eye

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• Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

  Samuel Fuller

  Hate, Violence, Action

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.

  Samuel Fuller

  Creepy, Battle, Feels

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• We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

  Samuel Fuller

  Democracy, Bricks, Nazi

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• If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

  Samuel Fuller

  Giving, Firsts, Scene

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• Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

  Samuel Fuller

  Mean, Evil, Pockets

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• We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Scratches, Dignity

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• We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

  Samuel Fuller

  Animal, Murder

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• 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.

  Samuel Fuller

  Drama, Lying, Style

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• 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, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.

  Samuel Fuller

  Drama, Lying, Deceit

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• There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

  Samuel Fuller

  Differences, Nazi, Nationalism

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• You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point

  Samuel Fuller

  Guy, West, Snipers

  "Fictional character: Zab". "The Big Red One", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Film is a battleground.

  Samuel Fuller

  Film, Filmmaker, Battleground

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Twists, Medical

  "Fictional character: Cathy". "Shock Corridor", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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