Quotes About Leni Riefenstahl

#1. Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

Quentin Tarantino

#2. I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

Leni Riefenstahl

#3. They kept asking me over and over again whether I was
having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend?
I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those
are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him ...

Leni Riefenstahl

#4. Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Leni Riefenstahl

#5. I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Leni Riefenstahl

#6. Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

Amy Chua

#7. I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

Leni Riefenstahl

#8. The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Leni Riefenstahl

#9. When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

Alan Dale

#10. Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

David Chalmers

#11. Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Terry Pratchett

#12. How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

Leni Riefenstahl

#13. I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ...

Leni Riefenstahl

#14. I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Leni Riefenstahl

#15. I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

Leni Riefenstahl

#16. Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper ... sharp pencils ... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk ... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter ... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

Jeff MacNelly

#17. Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words.

Leni Riefenstahl

#18. Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

Rosalind Wiseman

#19. At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

Hans Ulrich Obrist