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Fritz Lang [1890-1976] Austrian
Rank: 102
Director, Filmmaker


Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was 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.

Death, Fear



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I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. Death, Fear
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Women have always been my best friends.
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For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
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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.
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I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
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Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
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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.
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Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
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I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
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My private life has nothing to do with my films.
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I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
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Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
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I do not like producers.
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I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
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In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
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