Quotes by Leni Riefenstahl

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
– Leni Riefenstahl
I dreamed of wild mountain crags, and saw myself running across talus slopes, and always, the leading performer in the film, the symbol of all the feelings aroused in me, seemed to be a steep tower of rock; the Guglia.
– Leni Riefenstahl
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 have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
– Leni Riefenstahl
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, 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
I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.
– Leni Riefenstahl
I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.
– Leni Riefenstahl
In 1934 people were crazy and there was great enthusiasm for Hitler. We had to try and find that with our camera.
– Leni Riefenstahl
My desire to dive with an oxygen cylinder was so intensive that I decided to use a trick. Registering as Helene Jacob, I lied about my age: instead of 1902, I wrote 1922 in the application forms. My rejuvenation not withstanding, the scuba instructor eyed me skeptically; he was probably thinking: She'll never make it.
– Leni Riefenstahl
Reality doesn't interest me.
– Leni Riefenstahl
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
They killed me. I am a ghost.
– Leni Riefenstahl
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
– Leni Riefenstahl
To my dear Fuhrer with deepest admiration.
– Leni Riefenstahl