Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Langwas an Austrian-German filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 December 1890
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
hard
I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
ear music pleasant
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
hated hollywood likes nobody
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
horses ten
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
balance general guess involved life private profession whenever won work
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.
men
Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
love
For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
brain cannot fairy hand picture tale
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.
death fascinated fear films horror pathology profoundly
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
sex america france
In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
film private-life
My private life has nothing to do with my films.
mean heart hands
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.
heart hands understanding
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
regret eye ears
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.