Fritz Lang Quotations

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

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.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

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

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.

You cannot make a social-consciou s 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.

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