Noir Quotes - Page 2

• The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Hate, Trying, Pounds

  "Duane Swierczynski dreams up a violent new cocktail for The Black Hood". Interview with Derrick Sanskrit, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2015.

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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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• Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

  Leo Rosten

  Women, Cooking

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1989). “Leo Rosten's giant book of laughter”

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• Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable... and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue... don't miss it.

  Michael Arnzen

  Kings, Fun, Character

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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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• Are you always this random? (Jericho) Mostly. It really irritates Noir. Which is just an added bonus for me. At least so long as I can outrun him. (Asmodeus) Add me to that list of people you annoy. (Jericho) Oh. You’re not going to singe my testicles over it, are you?! (Asmodeus) No plans to. (Jericho) Good. We can be friends, then. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, People, Add

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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, Tone

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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, Financial, Film

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

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• You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as though you're asking people to go and watch an updated noir. I don't think they'll go do that. They want to see a modern story.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, People, Watches

  "Danny Boyle Interview, Trance". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It’s the headiest of concoctions. (Noir) I personally feel that way toward blood. No better smell in the universe than when it’s combined with the aroma of those fearing death. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Revenge, Blood, Smell

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.72, Macmillan

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• I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir.

  Olivier Megaton

  Fans, Watches, Cinema

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• Blade Runner's just a noir at the end of the day. Rosemary's Baby is about the fear of having a child and how that gets in the way of a romantic relationship. Or whatever it is, and you add that extra element that blows your mind apart.

  James Ponsoldt

  Baby, Children, Blow

  Source: collider.com

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• Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fiction, Contemporary

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

  Elliott Colla

  Black And White, Division, Moral

  Source: www.guernicamag.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, Film, Old Movie

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

  Gerard Way

  Mother, Writing, Superhero

  Source: collider.com

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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, Kind, Speak

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Thinking, Ice

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• You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see it? (Delphine) Spoken like someone who has only lived in the cushioned world of dreams. You have no idea what the real world is like. What people will do to you when they know they can get away with it. People are absolutely cruel and I say more power to Noir for tearing it down. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Real, Ideas

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• Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

  Thomas Jane

  Space, Fiction, Detectives

  Source: collider.com

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• Where are we? (Jericho) Noir’s happy place. It’s where he brings the beings he wants to play with. (Asmodeus) Punish. (Jericho) You say ta-mah-to. I say to-mah-to. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Play, Want, Asmodeus

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• Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white.

  Kevin Zraly

  Wine, White, Pinot Noir

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• In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mind, Alchemist, Prejudice

  "The Abyss". Book by Marguerite Yourcenar, Author's note, p. 367, 1968.

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• I can’t believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Believe, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.244, Macmillan

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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, Film

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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