44 Quotes by Samuel Fuller

I researched every milieu. If I were to do a movie tomorrow about a fashion designer, say, I would have to spend some time to find out what language they spoke. Because I would never be satisfied with my dialogue, I want something that gives you the color of that character right away.

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

I'm trying to be a voice of reason. I'm not trying to stop them from developing.

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

Surviving is the only glory in war

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

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

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

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.