I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker. Fritz Lang More Quotes by Fritz Lang More Quotes From Fritz Lang There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. Fritz Lang understanding heart hands 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 regret eye ears 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 captains giving directors 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 heart mean hands In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done. Fritz Lang done sex america My private life has nothing to do with my films. Fritz Lang private-life film I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. Fritz Lang i-am violence fear death I am not an artist. I am a craftsman. Fritz Lang am i-am craftsman artist I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. Fritz Lang concert songs like me Women have always been my best friends. Fritz Lang best always friends women For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately. Fritz Lang i-love me cinema love 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-am me man music I do not like producers. Fritz Lang like producers 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 my-life balance work life I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know. Fritz Lang nobody know you always Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals. Fritz Lang funerals snakes men
