Hollywood Perfectionist Quotes by Fritz Lang

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

— Fritz Lang

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

— 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,…

— Fritz Lang

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

— 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

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

— Fritz Lang

Love has become a four letter word.

— Fritz Lang

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

— 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

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

— Fritz Lang

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

— Fritz Lang

I do not like producers.

— Fritz Lang