Fritz Lang — Austrian Director born on December 05, 1890, died on August 02, 1976

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was a Austrian-German filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute... (wikipedia)

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
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.
For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.