The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb … - Leni Riefenstahl

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When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

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.

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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?

Betrayed, Guilt, Lived, Party, Regret

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

Famous Women, Life, See, Want

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.

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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.

Asking, Girlfriend, Romance, Time

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

Cutting, Editing, Fascinated, Magic, Room