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“Surviving is the only glory in war.”

Quote by Samuel Fuller

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Samuel Fuller was an American screenwriter known for his distinctive narrative style and profound insights into war themes. His works are characterized by a strong sense of realism and in-depth exploration of human nature, morality, and social issues. more

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“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”

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“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.”

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“I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.”

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Book:A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking

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“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.”

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

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Book:A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking

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

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“The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.”

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Book:Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

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