Samuel Fuller famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 #Rope
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the ***** garbage.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Couple #Giving #Stories
A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence,Â deathâ€”In one word, emotions.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Hate #Violence #Emotion
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 #Frustration #Men
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

#Character #Eye #Style
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Democracy #Bricks #Nazi
There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Differences #Nazi #Nationalism
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
Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Hate #Violence #Emotion
We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Animal #Murder
Heroes? Don't believe in them.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Hero #Believe #Crafts
Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Black And White #Color #Life Is
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 #Doe
If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!
-- Samuel Fuller

#Giving #Firsts #Scene
The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Creepy #Battle #Feels
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 #Stories
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Scripts #Cigar #Motion Pictures
I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Hate #Violence #Film
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 noirÂ 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
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
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense
-- Samuel Fuller

#Common Sense #Pistols #Use
Surviving is the only glory in war
-- Samuel Fuller

#War #Glory #Surviving
Film is a battleground.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Film #Filmmaker
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Fighting #Survival #There Is Hope

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