Erich von Stroheim Quotes
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
Lennig, Arthur. Stroheim. University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
The exact phrase was used by the Siemens Corporation in a non-political contest before Motley. See Charles De Gaulle for an earlier view.
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His adaptation of Frank Norris's McTeague titled Greed is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights issues, Stroheim was banned for life as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. For his early innovations as a director, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the auteur directors. He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema. He died of prostate cancer in France in 1957, at the age of 71. Beloved by Parisian neo-Surrealists known as Letterists, he was honored by Letterist Maurice Lemaître with a 70-minute 1979 film titled Erich von Stroheim.
