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Samuel Fuller Biography

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.

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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.

Climb, Dignity, People, Scratches, Start

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

Feet, Foot, Move, Moving, Next Steps, Rope

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

Action, Emotions, Film, Hate, Violence, Word

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.

Deceit, Drama, Emotion, Lying, Ryan, Stack

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

Cigar, Motion, Motion Pictures, Picture, Scripts

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death. . . In a word, emotion.

Action, Hate, Violence, Word

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

Couple, Garbage, Giving, Stories, Story, Throw

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

Evil, Hooker, Mean, Pockets, Same

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.

Finn, Johnny, Medical, People, Terms, Twists

Film is a battleground.

Battleground, Film, Filmmaker

There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

Difference, Differences, German, Nationalism, Nazi

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

Language, Show, Sometimes, Thing, True, Trying

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

Believe, Crafts, Hero, Heroes

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

Guy, Open, Send, Sniper, Snipers, West Point

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

Animal, Animals, Kill, Murder

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.

Character, Counters, Eye, Inspiring, Movie, Script

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Bricks, Build, Democracy, Nazi

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

Common Sense, Intellectuals, Pistol, Pistols, Sense, Use