Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheimwas an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most notable as being a film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth22 September 1885
CountryAustria
begging brother four million next picture production shallow sister swing trash
The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
call certain convinces exists might select sympathy vibration
Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
ashamed ask family pictures true
When you ask me why I do such pictures I am not ashamed to tell you the true reason: only because I do not want my family to starve.