"Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic."
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"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"
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"A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions."
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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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"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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"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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"We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks."
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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."
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"We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them."
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"Surviving is the only glory in war."
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"A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture."
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"Film is a battleground."
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"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."
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"Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion."
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"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."
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"Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing."
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"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."
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"If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!"
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense"
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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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