List of Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

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.

So Certainly, If We Can Tell Evil Stories To Make People Sick, We Can Also Tell Good Myths That Make Them Well.

Better A Street-sweeper In Mexico Than A Filmmaker In Germany!

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 Don't Believe That Melodramatic Feelings Are Laughable-they Should Be Taken Absolutely Seriously.

The Jews Have Never Been Ashamed Of Being Jews, Whereas Homosexuals Have Been Stupid Enough To Be Ashamed Of Their Homosexuality.

For All Of Us It’s The Things That Won’t Work That Keep Our Interest.

Women Think In 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.

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 Ones, Because They Made People Sick. So Certainly, If We Can Tell Evil Stories To Make People Sick, We Can Also Tell Good Myths That Make Them Well.

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.

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.

The More Real Things Get, The More Like Myths They Become.

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.