Leni Riefenstahl famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Want
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#World #Numb #Loud
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Beautiful #Book #Artist
I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Cutting #Editing #Magic
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Ocean #Heart #Years
How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Men #People #Criminals
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Strong
I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Beautiful #Giving #Style
I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Beauty Of Life #Capture
Reality doesn't interest me.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Reality #Interest
Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Regret #Party #Guilt
They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him...
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Girlfriend #Romance #Asking
Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words.
-- Leni Riefenstahl

#Success #Achievement

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