M Fritz Lang Quotes & Sayings

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education ... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky. — Ken Adam

My private life has nothing to do with my films. — Fritz Lang

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

I do not like producers. — 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

Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him. — Sylvia Sidney

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

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. — Sylvia Sidney

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

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

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

Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish, fully realized, imaginative tour-de-force. It's Jules Verne meets Fritz Lang meets Tintin.
It's beyond Steampunk. It's clearly an insatiable passion for the talismans of a bygone civilization and it's slavish addiction to the early industrial age in all it's filigreed, ignorant glory. Greg has raised the bar. — Adam Savage

In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson argues that Brennan should have won awards for even better performances in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), The Far Country (1955), and Rio Bravo (1959). Thomson counts no less than twenty-eight high caliber Brennan performances in still more films, including These Three (1936), Fury (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), and Bad Day At Black Rock (1955). Brennan worked with Hollywood's greatest directors - John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Wyler, King Vidor, and Fritz Lang - while also starring in Jean Renoir's Hollywood directorial debut, Swamp Water (1941). To discuss Brennan's greatest performances is also to comment on the work of Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, and many other stars. — Carl Rollyson

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. — Frank Miller

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 watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre. — Michel Hazanavicius

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. — Henry Miller

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

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

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman. — Fritz Lang

Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals. — Fritz Lang

Women have always been my best friends. — Fritz Lang

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