Samuel Fuller Quotes
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
Fuller, Samuel, director. Verboten!. Globe Enterprises, 1959.
As a member of the electoral college, he refused to vote for Richard M. Nixon who had won the North Carolina vote. Extremist fundamentalists often oppose democracy in favor of republicanism. A major distinction for them is in the republic, there is not direct
His way was to have a strong dictator, providing few human rights guarantees, and very limited civil liberties. With that to extol the virtues of those democratic elements, and state that this is the goal that his dictatorship was working towards. He believed that the poor education, the dominance of a single religion that is itself non democratic, a powerful military that was not under the control of civilian government, and the tribal nature of his society made it impossible to have a current full democracy. The government that replaced him was better but far from a full democracy. Only time and trial will determine whether or not he was right.
Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.
