"Fuller's legacy is not only left in his beloved films, but in a generation or two of filmmakers deeply in his debt, from the French New Wave directors credited with revitalizing cinema in the mid-20th century who considered Fuller among the best American filmmakers, to the countless auteurs to follow who have cited Fuller as a mentor figure and drawn from his work in their own – Scorcese using camera techniques from The Steel Helmet in Raging Bull, Paul Thomas Anderson using the same film's opening shot for his own in The Master, and Jean-Luc Godard casting Fuller in Pierrot Le Fou as a mouthpiece for that much sought nature of cinema itself: Film is like a battleground. There's love, hate, action, violence, death, in one word, emotion."
