Quotes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Depressing

Long

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

Filmmaker

Germany

Mexico

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, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It’s a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

Couple

Directors

Feelings

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.

Existence

Long

Ordinary

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

Interest

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.

Believe

Ideas

Two

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.

Film

House

Wall

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.

Cinema

Psychology

Theatre

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

Analysis

Defense

Ideas

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.

Beautiful

Easy

Suffering

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Believe

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Dream

Easy

Enough

Evil

Existence

Feelings

Film

Filmmaker

Germany

Giving

Goal

Homosexuality

House

Ideas

Insidious

Interest

Lessons

Long

Love Is

Mexico

Myth

Ordinary

People

Powerful

Psychology

Real

Real Things

Reality

Saws

Sick

Social

Stupid

Suffering

Taken

Theatre

Thinking

Two

Wall

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Quotes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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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