Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinderwas a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 May 1945
CountryGermany
absolutely believe laughable taken
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
sick people evil
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
writing done saws
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.
germany mexico filmmaker
Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!
stupid enough homosexuality
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
psychology theatre cinema
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.
taken believe people
Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.
beautiful dream powerful
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.
real sick people
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
thinking giving directors
Women think in [Douglas] 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. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.
depressing long
As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.
real myth real-things
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
interest
For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.
beautiful suffering easy
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.