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
stop trying voice
I'm trying to be a voice of reason. I'm not trying to stop them from developing.
couple giving stories
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.
ambition frustration men
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.
black-and-white color life-is
Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
trying language film
Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.
differences nazi nationalism
There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.
democracy bricks nazi
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
drama lying stories
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.
film filmmaker battleground
Film is a battleground.
scripts cigar motion-pictures
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
fighting survival there-is-hope
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.
common-sense pistols use
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense