As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a …

- 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 yoursel…

- 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…

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instea…

- 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 b…

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, w…

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder