Fritz Lang Quotes

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

— Fritz Lang

“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.”

— Fritz Lang

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

“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.”

— Fritz Lang

“I do not like producers.”

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

“My private life has nothing to do with my films.”

— Fritz Lang

“Women have always been my best friends.”

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

“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.”

— Fritz Lang