Fritz Lang

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

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman. ”

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

I do not like producers. ”

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

My private life has nothing to do with my films. ”

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. ”

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