Top 26 Fassbinder Quotes
#1. The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.
Ken O'Neill
#2. But not all Jews were victims- look at Chairman Rumkowski, who sat safe with his new wife in his cushy home making lists, with the blood of my family on his hands. And not all Germans were murderers. Look at Herr Fassbinder, who had saved so many children on the night that children were taken away.
Jodi Picoult
#3. 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.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#5. 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
#6. I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
Sally Field
#7. The conjugate expression for a binomial of form a + b is the expression a - b and conversely.
Fred Safier
#8. 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
#10. 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
#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.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#12. Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.
Eliza Leslie
#14. If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
P. J. O'Rourke
#17. 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
#18. In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#19. A life without concrete product is a meaningless one
Sunday Adelaja
#20. There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee
#21. 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.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#22. 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.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#23. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#24. Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.
Joyce Carol Oates
#25. The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#26. 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
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