Samuel Fuller Quotes
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
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When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
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Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.
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Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.
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A woman's outfit says a lot about her.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.