The power of good film is being there in the moment.
I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. . . . His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.
I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
God has called each one of us to embrace life, not merely to endure it.
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.