Dashiell Hammett Quotes

“I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.”

“Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.”

“It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.”

“The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!”

“I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.”

“If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.”

“I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.”

“He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.”

“I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.”

“I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.”