Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I’d like to be for cinema what shakespeare was for theatre, marx for politics and freud for psychology: — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
And I don’t believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable – they should be taken absolutely seriously. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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
It isn’t easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful… it’s difficult. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, sirk’s been in — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The jews have never been ashamed of being jews, whereas homosexuals have been — Rainer Werner Fassbinder