Fritz Lang Quotes:

Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

- Sylvia Sidney

topic: Fritz Lang, Dearest Friend

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.257, New Directions Publishing

topic: Cities, Giving, Imagination, Fritz Lang

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

- Michel Hazanavicius

source: "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

topic: Brother, Care, Want, Fritz Lang, Coen Brothers

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

- Frank Miller

topic: New York, Writing, Men, Fritz Lang

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

- Ken Adam

source: "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 1999.

topic: Foundation, Max, Berlin, Kandinsky, Mies Van Der Rohe