Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahlwas a German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress, dancer, and propagandist for the Nazis...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 August 1902
CityBerlin, Germany
CountryGermany
beautiful giving style
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.
beautiful book artist
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...
ocean heart years
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.
beauty-of-life capture
I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
reality interest
Reality doesn't interest me.
success achievement
Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words.
girlfriend romance way
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...
men people politics
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.
cutting editing magic
I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.
inspirational beautiful strong
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
world numb applause
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.
beautiful strong average
I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge... Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me... I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.