Noir Quotes

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I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

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.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

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.

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

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)

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

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

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)

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

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.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

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 had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

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.

I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

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.

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

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)

But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right? pg 264

Steve needed to be careful here. He'd read mid-twentieth-century science fiction so he knew that once you started switching realities you ran into problems with nested levels of existence.

So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen, " he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted.

The two women looked at me as if I were the Messiah returning with their personal salvations sealed in separate envelopes.

No! The mission was to terminate one Hipo officer. Not four by random. You didn’t get him so the operation was a failure.”Johannes aka ‘BB’The Informer by Steen Langstrup

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.

Taking my drink, I moved around the bar to her. Her smile was a little crooked as I sat down. I guessed it had been a wet night for platinum blondes.

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.