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.
As long as movies are depressing, life isn't. - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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
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 …
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
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…
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 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…
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
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…
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
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…
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism. - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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
People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
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
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…
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