19 Quotes by Fritz Lang

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

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.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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