I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge... Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me... I am… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge...… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me. — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals. — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony. — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words. — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over,… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image