44 Quotes by Samuel Fuller

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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