Occupation: Film Director Birth: September 22, 1885 Death: May 12, 1957
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead..
As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl..
In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture..
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing..
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life ….
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair..
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my chara….
Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern ….
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality..
I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living….
Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality..
Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men..