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 Fritz Lang QuotationAbout CinemaScope: "It's only good for funerals and snakes." "Each picture has some sort of rhythym which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship." "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." Movie Title: Contempt (1963) as Fritz Lang: Jerry Prokosch : Whenever I hear the word culture, I bring out my checkbook. (To his assistant) Come here. (He places his checkbook on his assistant's back and writes out a check.) Fritz Lang : Some years ago - some horrible years ago - the Nazis used to take out a pistol instead of a checkbook. Jerry Prokosch : I like gods. I like them very much. I know exactly how they feel - exactly. Fritz Lang : Jerry, don't forget. The gods have not created man. Man has created gods. Paul Javal : I like cinemascope very much. Fritz Lang : Oh, it wasn't meant for human beings. Just for snakes... and funerals. [after viewing film shot by Fritz Lang] Jerry Prokosch : You've cheated me, Fritz. That's not what is in that script. Fritz Lang : It is! He pulls the script away from Jerry, who is attempting to grab it out of his hand. Oh, no! Jerry Prokosch : Get the script, Francesca. He reads the script and then changes his tone... Yes, it's in the script. But it's not what you have on that screen. Fritz Lang : Naturally, because in the script it is written, and on the screen it's pictures. Motion picture, it's called. Fritz Lang : Now it's no longer the presence of God, but the absence of God, that reassures man. It's very strange, but true. |
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