M Fritz Lang Quotes

#1. For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

Fritz Lang

#2. Women have always been my best friends.

Fritz Lang

#3. It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.

Fritz Lang

#4. I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.

Fritz Lang

#5. My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

Mukesh Ambani

#6. I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

Fritz Lang

#7. The best part about poker is there's no down side.

Samantha Bee

#8. Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

Sylvia Sidney

#9. 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

#10. We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it.

Theresa May

#11. Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Fritz Lang

#12. Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

Henry Miller

#13. However, she was horrified the following morning when she opened the Daily Mail at breakfast. The leading article was headed THE HUNS MUST PAY. The paper argued that food aid should be sent to Germany - only because "if Germany were starved to death she could not pay what she owes.

Ken Follett

#14. I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

Fritz Lang

#15. There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

Fritz Lang

#16. Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

E.L. Doctorow

#17. I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears ... to my constant regret.

Fritz Lang

#18. I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

Henry Moore

#19. My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Fritz Lang

#20. In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

Fritz Lang

#21. You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Fritz Lang

#22. The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education ... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

Ken Adam

#23. Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go.

Susan Gable

#24. Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

Sylvia Sidney

#25. I do not like producers.

Fritz Lang

#26. In Hyderabad/South of India there is a very good saying:
"Nakkal ko bhi Akal Hoona!" - Even Cheating needs brain

Anonymous

#27. Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

William Batchelder Greene

#28. I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Fritz Lang

#29. Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

Fritz Lang

#30. Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.

M.J. Rose

#31. ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say more wisdom.

Napoleon Hill

#32. Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.

Fritz Lang

#33. I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

Fritz Lang