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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.

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Captain Director Each Give He Like Only Picture Rhythm Ship Some Sort Which

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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.

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Am Cruelty Death Fascinated Fear Films Horror Pathology Preoccupation Profoundly Show Violence I Am

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

~Fritz Lang

Topics: America Done France Preached Sex

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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.

~Fritz Lang

Topics: All My Life Always Balance Been Could General Guess Had Involved Just Life My Life Out Private Private Life Profession Say Whenever Won Work

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For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Cinema Love Me Vice I Love

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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.

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Between Brain Cannot Definitely Fairy Fairy Tale Hand Heart Make Mean Picture Say Tale Which You

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

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Funerals Men Snakes

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

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Always Hated Hollywood Know Likes Nobody Perfectionist Something You

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My private life has nothing to do with my films.

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Films Life Nothing Private Private Life

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

~Fritz Lang

Topics: Bring Concert Folk Horses Like Me Opera Songs Ten

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Director

Born: December 5th, 1890

Died: August 2nd, 1976

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