Quotes About Fritz Lang

#1. 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

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

Sylvia Sidney

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Sylvia Sidney

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Fritz Lang

#9. Extremes of wealth and poverty are a scandal to Christian brotherhood. They must not be allowed.

Richard J. Foster

#10. I was stained by failure.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it.

Alister MacKenzie

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

Fritz Lang

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

Fritz Lang

#14. 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

#15. If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear ... .Nobody's music is the enemy of your music ... The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.

John Mayer

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

Fritz Lang

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

Fritz Lang

#18. Women have always been my best friends.

Fritz Lang

#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. I do not like producers.

Fritz Lang

#23. It isn't Jezebel you have to worry about," Gavriil said in a low tone. "It's the devil she's with, and he'll be waiting for you.

Christine Feehan

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

Fritz Lang

#25. 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

#26. And therefor," said Magnus "We must go." Will blinked at him. "Go where?" "Don't worry about that right now, my love." Will blinked again. "Pardon?

Cassandra Clare

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

Fritz Lang

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

Fritz Lang

#29. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

Noomi Rapace

#30. For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.

Karl Ove Knausgard