Samuel Fuller Quotes

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

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#2. There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

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

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#4. When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

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#5. We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

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

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

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#8. The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.

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

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#10. Film is a battleground.

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#11. If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. Heroes? Don't believe in them.

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#19. 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.

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. Surviving is the only glory in war.

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

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