Fritz Lang quotes:

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.

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.

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

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

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

Women have always been my best friends.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

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

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

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

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.