44 Quotes by Samuel Fuller

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

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

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

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.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

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

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.

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.

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.