Filmmaker Quote by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Download Open image “Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!” — Rainer Werner Fassbinder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Filmmaker Germany Mexico Streets Sweepers
I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Germany is the country where action films perform the worst. It's the worst market in the world for these kind of movies. — Til Schweiger Copy Share Image
What the rest of the world knows about Mexico is what they see on films and the bad news they see on TV. We… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me. — Katy Jurado Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the… — Graciela Iturbide 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
I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business.… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time. — James Mangold Copy Share Image
Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not. — Adam Wingard Copy Share Image
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life. — Tom Hooper 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)
