Samuel Fuller - biography

“When you’re in the battlefield, survival is all there is.  Death is the only great emotion.”

“Being a hooker does not mean being evil.  The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief.  You do what you do out of necessity.”

“Film is a battleground: love, hate, action, death.  In a word: emotion.”

“Surviving is the only glory in war.”

“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever.  It counters where your eye is going.  This style thing, for me it’s all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”

“We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.”

“When you’re at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other.  Just take the next step.  That’s all there is to it.”

“You know how you smoke out a sniper?  You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot.  They thought that one up at West Point.”

Samuel Fuller contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
Flight from Justice (1938)
Confirm or Deny (1941)
Margin for Error (1943)
Shockproof (1949)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Hell and High Water (1954)
House of Bamboo (1955)
China Gate (1957)
Forty Guns (1957)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
The Cape Town Affair (1967)
Targets (1968)
Shark! (1969)
The Klansman (1974)
The Big Red One (1980)
Les Voleurs de la nuit (1984)
Street of No Return (1989)


Samuel Fuller has appeared in the following films:
House of Bamboo (1955)
The Last Movie (1971)
Der Amerikanische Freund (1977)
Scott Joplin (1977)
1941 (1979)
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987)
A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)
Sons (1989)
Street of No Return (1989)
Gibellina, Metamorphosis of a Melody (1992)
Golem, l’esprit de l’exil (1992)
La Vie de bohème (1992)
Golem, le jardin pétrifié (1993)
Somebody to Love (1994)
Milim (1996)
The End of Violence (1997)


Samuel Fuller directed the following films:
The Last Movie (1971)
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Hell and High Water (1954)
House of Bamboo (1955)
China Gate (1957)
Forty Guns (1957)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
Shark! (1969)
The Big Red One (1980)
Les Voleurs de la nuit (1984)
Street of No Return (1989)