Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Michael Fullerwas an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth12 August 1912
CountryUnited States of America
scripts cigar motion-pictures
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
death great
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
character color fashion gives language satisfied spend time tomorrow
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.
stop trying voice
I'm trying to be a voice of reason. I'm not trying to stop them from developing.
democracy bricks nazi
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
war glory surviving
Surviving is the only glory in war
differences nazi nationalism
There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.
hero believe crafts
Heroes? Don't believe in them.
guy west snipers
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
drama lying style
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.
fighting survival there-is-hope
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.
hate violence film
I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.
common-sense pistols use
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense
film filmmaker battleground
Film is a battleground.