Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes:- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, cinematographer, editor, and essayist.
Inspirational Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
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
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 Werner Fassbinder
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
Rainer Werner 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 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 deeper into yourself.
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
