Fritz Lang

“You cannot make a social-conscious film in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale, definitely.”

“While I was shooting 'M' I heard that Goebbels had said I was his favourite director.”

“Every film is a documentary of its own making.”

“I learned to hate in Germany.”

“I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.”

“In my opinion, the only real art form of the 20th century is the cinema.”

“I make pictures for the audience, not for myself.”

“My pictures are my children.”

“I am not a prophet, I am a filmmaker.”

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

“Death is for me a musical theme.”

“I was a painter, then a writer, then a director. I have been a director for 40 years, and I'm not a child.”