German Expressionism Quotes

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

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

I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the first interesting films I liked as a kid were German expressionist silent films.

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.

The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking.

There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film buffs revere.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

As I was looking through a book about German Expressionist films and their stars, it all came together because of the extreme way actors made their faces up in those early day of film in order to pop out in the black-and-white. I just wanted to use makeup in the same way, partly perhaps because as women get older, they're told to wear less makeup.

I don't think people know 'Nosfuratu.'