Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

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 Werner 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 Werner Fassbinder

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

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

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

- Rainer Werner 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 Werner Fassbinder