Top 17 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

#1. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

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

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

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#4. 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 house.

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#5. Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

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

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

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

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#9. For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

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#10. Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

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