#noir

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#noir #men

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

— James M. Cain

#money #murder #noir #women #money

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#humour #noir #stationary #dreams

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. ↗

— James Ellroy

#any #as far as #because #dead #deal

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#around #assumptions #everyone #expectations #film

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! ↗

— Marie Windsor

#detective stories #doing #film #film noir #i

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. ↗

— Frank Miller

#best #blood #deny #dirty #does

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bunch #came #chandler #comics #crime

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

— Brian De Palma

#because #contemporary #i #i think #live

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#being #dream #dreams #falling #feels