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
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.
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.
hard
I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
men
Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
love
For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
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.
giving captains ships
Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
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.
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.