All Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
- 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 I… Absolutely
- The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and… Beautiful
- Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. Best
- The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced,… Bad
- 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. They’re… Belief
- Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings,… Couple
- Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary… Better
- I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But… Build
- In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism. Analysis
- The more real things get, the more like myths they become. Inspirational
- 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 it… Cinema
- So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. Evil
- The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality. Ashamed
- 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 what… Actually Ever
- 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. Accept
- I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship.… All
- People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson. Anything Anything
- 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… Always Reacting
- For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest. All