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I grew up on film noir.
I love noir, quite obviously.
I like Public School and En Noir.
Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.
I wanted to work with Sriram Raghavan, the master of noir.
I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.
I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.
I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
As brilliant as those dark Scandi noir dramas are, not everything has to be shot down a Danish alleyway.
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.
So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.
(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
I'd never bought a bottle of cologne in my life, never dabbled in Drakkar Noir before the big high school date or Polo before the prom.
One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved.
The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features.
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.
When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
For me personally, I like a smooth pinot noir with a lot of cherry fruit flavor. In the proper mood, I like a little earth and a little spice as well.
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.
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.
Noir' has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of 'The Black Dahlia,' but De Palma's palllete couldn't be less monochrome; it's the very definition of garish.
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture's different.
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)
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)
A lot of people think I must be like Vince Noir. He's a bit like a child. He doesn't have any malice. He's even friendly to monsters. I am like that, I guess. I talk to anyone.
When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.
I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.
I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.