"Everyone must decide for himself whether it is……" — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
"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 life."
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19 Quotes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their…
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and…
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of…
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People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see…
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Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject…
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I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and…
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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after…
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make…
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The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their…
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