Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Fritz Lang

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian director Fritz Lang.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.

Austrian - Director | December 5, 1890 - August 2, 1976

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My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Fritz Lang

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Women have always been my best friends.

Fritz Lang

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

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

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I do not like producers.

Fritz Lang

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

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

Fritz Lang

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-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.

Fritz Lang