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