It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way.… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share
