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Related Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. ADRIAN MCKINTY If film noir males are destroyed or nearly destroyed by fate, the noir woman is fate's emissary, a s... JACK NACHBAR WERNER HERZOG I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. CLAIRE DENIS Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution. MARGO JEFFERSON We had to postpone them a week because (film critic) Roger Ebert wanted them to appear on his televi... LEE WARREN This is fun for the girls. They knew nothing about the film noir method. JANETTA DAVIS Susan is using a lot of references to film noir and to the classic ballets. It?s going to be very la... GERARD CHARLES And then, with a shock like high-voltage coursing through me, the phone beside me started pealing th... CORNELL WOOLRICH When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took hi... RICHARD STARK It's choppy and direct; the speeches are less flowery. It really lends itself to the film noir style... JACKIE LABARRO Film noir is all about murder, passion, espionage and revenge, and that's what 'Hamlet' is about. So... JACKIE LABARRO ROGER EBERT I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir stor... BRIAN DE PALMA It also includes the typical strong-willed woman of the film noir style; only, in this case there ar... JANETTA DAVIS One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails... S. J. ROZAN JAMES ELLROY RAYMOND CHANDLER ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we t... LENNY ABRAHAMSON Pinot Noir is one of the most difficult [grape] varieties to produce, but when it is done well, it i... TOM SHELTON WESLEY MORRIS MARIE WINDSOR This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it ... FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR. In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'W... JONAS MEKAS It's a sort of cowboy noir. DAVE ANDERSON MICHAEL DIRDA But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't... BRIAN DE PALMA Fog is a huge factor with the creation of pinot noir in the Russian River Valley. KEVIN FURTADO The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acti... JAMES LIPTON LANA WACHOWSKI I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked fro... TODD PHILLIPS The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact tha... FRANK MILLER I'm not a victim of sexual abuse. I'm not from a broken home. I've never killed anyone before, or wa... STELLA NOIR There is a difference between love and to be in love. Just like there is a difference between a diam... CORTNIE GOODNIGHT MAE WEST DENNIS LEHANE At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor... MARGO JEFFERSON Les essuie-glaces, d'un dynamisme consternant pour toute personne fatiguée, dégageaient la flotte ... FRéDéRIC H. FAJARDIE The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks an... ERIN KELLY The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid sh... DASHIELL HAMMETT RAYMOND CHANDLER RAYMOND CHANDLER IVY COMPTON-BURNETT It's a big difference between being a starter and a backup. You have to watch more film and be more ... ADRIAN JONES ERIN MORGENSTERN It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in a... WAYNE A. GRUDEM I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson W... FRANK MILLER I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on... VINCENT GALLO "I'm his little twisty" and he likes it a lot. KATRINA BURRELL The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact... FRANK MILLER This is a group that likes to play, and more importantly, they really like one another. I'm very, ve... SKIP PROSSER A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still.... CORNELL WOOLRICH I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, ... KEN BRUEN H.L. MENCKEN H.L. MENCKEN Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and he... PETRA HADEN I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Laur... DIANA QUICK BLAISE PASCAL O'Neill has been more optimistic about the economy and resistant to additional stimulus, so I suppos... ALAN LEVENSON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON NEAL STEPHENSON FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY GEORG C. LICHTENBERG My primary objective is to encourage dialogue between all Christians, both Jew and Gentile, and to o... JAMES MIKOłAJCZYK CHARLES CALEB COLTON LANA WACHOWSKI The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight... TAMMY BLANCHARD ROBERT A. HEINLEIN HUBERT H. HUMPHREY To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN We documented a clear difference between bird viruses and human viruses. You need much more work to ... CLAYTON NAEVE LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE LEO FITZPATRICK Knowing the clear difference between authentic and inauthentic and still being inauthentic is going ... ARVIND MEHTA I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd... ED LYNSKEY Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are m... PAUL FEIG MARIO TESTINO JOHN BENTLEY JOHN BENTLEY At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this univers... KEN POIROT I am pleased that the public is more aware of them and open to seeing them than in years past. KAREN COOPER Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes t... SARAH CALDWELL ARTHUR C. CLARKE That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was... LAWRENCE KASDAN The information is straightforward and very compelling. It would be great to have more. WILLIAM SANDERS JOHN IRVING DEYTH BANGER HUNTER S. THOMPSON We have a fun record of ripping off Shakespeare. He was brilliant with narrative and complex, twisty... KIRSTEN SMITH What is the difference between an amateur and a professional?
One of them is predictable. VICTOR BLAZEVIC VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER ALBERT EINSTEIN NEAL STEPHENSON JON RONSON JOHN BENTLEY Obviously, the easy thing is to add more policemen, and we're doing that. A lot of communities in th... TOM HARP
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I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there... 
Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man. 
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very g... 
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perha... 
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and ki... 
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! 
In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat form... 
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To err is human, but it feels divine. 
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them. 
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more li... 
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more li... 
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no differen... 
Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding,... 
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. St... 
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the... 
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and sim... 
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you c... 
There’s precious little choice.” “There’s always a choice! This one is a choice between ‘b... 
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. 
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. 
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