Top 39 Samuel Fuller Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Samuel Fuller

#1. If you don't like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don't like cinema.

#2. What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where i missed him even in sleep

Anna Carey

#8. The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Samuel Fuller

#10. 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

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

Samuel Fuller

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

Samuel Fuller

#13. 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

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

Samuel Fuller

#15. Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Samuel Butler

#16. 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

#17. There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

Hendrik Poinar

#18. Surviving is the only glory in war.

Samuel Fuller

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

Samuel Fuller

#20. It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

David Chipperfield

#21. A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

Max Lucado

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

Samuel Fuller

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

Samuel Fuller

#24. Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Patrick Henry

#25. all authentic prayer is a scraping of the heart whereby the dregs of the soul are offered up to God.

Richard J. Foster

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

Samuel Fuller

#27. I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.

Phil Ochs

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

Samuel Fuller

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

Samuel Fuller

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

Samuel Fuller

#31. I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job.

Greg Hicks

#32. It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.

Richelle E. Goodrich