Samuel Fuller Professions : Screenwriter Born : August 12, 1912 Died : October 30, 1997 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Samuel Fuller 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 next feet moving A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions. Samuel Fuller violence hate action Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic. Samuel Fuller black-and-white color life-is If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage. Samuel Fuller garbage couple giving 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 frustration ambition men Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing. Samuel Fuller language trying sometimes We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks. Samuel Fuller nazi bricks democracy Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion. Samuel Fuller violence hate action A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture. Samuel Fuller motion-pictures cigar scripts We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them. Samuel Fuller murder animal Surviving is the only glory in war. Samuel Fuller surviving glory war 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 scratches dignity people 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 deceit drama lying 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 eye inspiring 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 snipers guy west I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films. Samuel Fuller film violence hate 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 pockets evil mean 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 style drama lying Film is a battleground. Samuel Fuller battleground filmmaker film We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense Samuel Fuller pistols common-sense use Similar Authors Irving Brecher screenwriter Bill Kelly screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin screenwriter Burt Prelutsky screenwriter Budd Schulberg screenwriter Bryan Fuller screenwriter All Authors
