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
ideas analysis lasts
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
people lessons bears
People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
long ordinary existence
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.
couple feelings might
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.
love-is social insidious
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
believe ideas two
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.
reality goal people
People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.
wall house film
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.