Film Noir Quotes

• That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Style, Fans, Stories

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

  Diana Krall

  Character, Track, Singing

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• One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

  Roger Ebert

  Plot Lines, Differences, Noir

  Roger Ebert's review of "The Samaritan", www.rogerebert.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

  Paul Schrader

  White, Quality, Noir

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• No me importa una cantidad razonable de problemas.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Mind, Trouble, Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Night, Wind

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• There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Reality, Missing, Technique

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.

  Christopher Nolan

  Motivational, Character, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

  Werner Herzog

  Insecurity, Noir, Financial

  "Courting Disaster: Werner Herzog". Interview with Darrell Hartman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2009.

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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.

  Samuel Fuller

  Drama, Lying, Deceit

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• Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

  Ben Maddow

  Trust, Thinking, Noir

  "Fictional character: Doc Riedenschneider". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.

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• Cuanto más barato es el ladrón, más llamativo es el golpeteo.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Crooks, Noir, Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). "Vintage Hammett", p.151, Vintage

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• Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.

  Wesley Morris

  I Love You, Kindness, Noir

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• Estoy agradecido por lo que yo llamo momentos bien aprovechados: Hacer un sándwich de atún con las cosas. Tomarme al menos media hora para comerlo al aire libre. Planchar mis paños de cocina vintage mientras veo viejas películas de cine negro en blanco y negro y bebo un martini con extra de aceitunas: una combinación extraña, pero funciona.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Grateful, Blanco y Negro, Atún

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• I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Princess, White

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• (In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

  Rainn Wilson

  Squad, Noir, Kind

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

  Boti Bliss

  Independent, Noir, Film

  Fuente: actionflickchick.com

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• I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film

  Gina Gershon

  Thinking, Noir, Kind

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• Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

  Pauline Kael

  Addiction, Directors, Noir

  Pauline Kael (1989). "Hooked", E P Dutton

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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.

  Samuel Fuller

  Drama, Lying, Style

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• Sí, para mí ése es uno de los miedos más acuciantes del cine negro y del género del thriller psicológico: el miedo a la conspiración. Es algo que yo también temo: no tener el control de tu propia vida. Creo que es algo con lo que la gente puede identificarse, y esos géneros tienen más éxito cuando derivan el material de miedos genuinos que la gente tiene.

  Christopher Nolan

  Éxito, Pensamiento, Personas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Como estrella masculina, alto, moreno y guapo, Carey Grant siempre representa la belleza y el atractivo masculinos, ya sea en un screwball de los años 30, en una película de cine negro de los 40 o en una comedia romántica de los 50. Por consiguiente, da la vuelta al género ortodoxo entre el que mira y desea y el que es mirado y, por tanto, deseado. En consecuencia, da la vuelta al género ortodoxo entre el que mira y por eso desea, y el que es mirado y por eso es deseado.

  Steven A. Cohen

  Beauty, Stars, Dark

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