Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
Women think in Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting,… — 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 Image
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 Image
For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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 what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope…” quote by Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0e6/rainer-werner-fassbinder-25537_directors_women-think-in-douglas-sirk-s-films-some_607394.jpg)
