Kafka (1991)

Ian Holm: Dr. Murnau

Quotes 

• Doctor Murnau : A crowd is easier to control than an individual. A crowd has a common purpose. The purpose of the individual is always in question.

  Franz Kafka : That's what you're trying to eliminate, isn't it? Everything that makes one human being different from another. But you'll *never*, *never* reach a man's soul through a lens.

  Doctor Murnau : That rather depends on which end of the microscope you're on, doesn't it?

• Doctor Murnau : You despise someone like me - because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it.