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 About CinemaScope: "It`s only good for funerals and snakes." There was a time when all I looked for was a good story, but nowadays everything has to look like the size of Mount Rushmore, and the actors in close- up look as though they belong there.
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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.
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I do not like producers.
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Trivia
On 25 March 1933, two days after Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das (1933) had been banned, Lang was summoned to the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda to meet with Josef Goebbels himself. Goebbels explained the reason for the ban (the Nazi party slogans are fed into the mouth of the villain at the film's conclusion) and apologized to Lang. He then shocked Lang by offering him the position of production supervisor at the UFA studios, where his first film would be a biography of Wilhelm Tell. Lang suspected a trap and attempted to throw off Goebbels by telling him, "My mother had Jewish parents," to which Goebbels responded, "We'll decide who's Jewish!" Lang then expressed interest in the position and said he needed some time to think it over. That very evening, he boarded a train to Paris, leaving most of his money and personal possessions behind, along with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who divorced him later that year and went on to write and direct films for the Nazi propaganda machine.
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 609-624. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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Both in Germany and the United States, he was one of the most personally disliked directors around, a fact that hurt him at times in Hollywood because some actresses and actors would refuse to work with him.
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Before his death in 1976, he planned to make a film about the hippie culture.
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Was nearly blind at the time of his death.
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Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh." NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
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His first wife, Lisa Rosenthal, committed suicide by shooting herself in the chest.
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Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Enduring Faith section, just to the right of plot #3818, two in from the curb.
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President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964.
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Second son of Anton Lang, an architect, and Pauline Schlesinger.
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Collected primitive art.
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Dorothy Parker once remarked, in reference to Lang's wife's "campaigning" for his career, "There's a man who got where he is by the sweat of his Frau."
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As a soldier in the Austrian army during World War I, Lang fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.
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Was voted the 30th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
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An animated version of Lang appeared in the Japanese animated movie "Full Metal Alchemist: Conquerors of Shamballa" (_Gekijyouban hagane no renkinjutsushi - Shanbara wo iku mono (2005)_). Originally mistaken by Edward Elric as being one of the Homonculi from his own world, this Fritz Lang aided Edward in his quest to return home. He was voiced by Hidekatsu Shibata.
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