Samuel Fuller

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

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.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.