Rainer W. Fassbinder Quotes

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

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 used to be.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

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 W. Fassbinder

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

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 a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

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 I've learned from his work.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

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