Erich von Stroheim movie quotes

“When ten years later I saw the film myself, it was like seeing a corpse in a graveyard.”

Erich von Stroheim

“- Le captaine von Rauffenstein: I don't know who will win this war, but whatever the outcome, it will mean the end of the Rauffensteins and the Boeldieus.
- Le captaine de Boeldieu: We're no longer needed.”
Erich von Stroheim - Le captaine von Rauffenstein
Pierre Fresnay - Le captaine de Boeldieu

“May the earth lie lightly upon our valiant enemy.”
Erich von Stroheim - Le captaine von Rauffenstein

“Would it not be the achievement of all time to keep the brains of great thinkers, scientists, authors, statesmen, alive? To derive benefit from their wisdom and thinking power, even after their death - to make them literally immortal?”
Erich von Stroheim - Prof. Franz Mueller