Riefenstahl Quotes

#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 can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Petra Nemcova

#3. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Jennifer Egan

#4. 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

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

Leni Riefenstahl

#6. 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

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

Leni Riefenstahl

#10. 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

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

Leni Riefenstahl

#12. The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.

Shilpa Shetty

#13. Stop worrying about when this ends. You can't tell me the thought hasn't crossed your mind that it won't.

Scarlet Wolfe

#14. After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

Rhys Ifans

#15. From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.

Gaspar Noe

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

Leni Riefenstahl

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

Leni Riefenstahl

#18. I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

W.C. Fields

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

Leni Riefenstahl

#20. If you always find within, you will never feel without.

Open your mind to what you feel is true, or else someone will open your mind for you, to what they want you to know is true.

Arnie M. Gonzalez