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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

As long as movies are depressing, life isn’t Picture Quote #1

The more real things get, the more like myths they become Picture Quote #1

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well Picture Quote #1

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That’s the lesson Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That’s the lesson Picture Quote #1

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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As long as movies are depressing, life isn’t (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes) The more real things get, the more like myths they become (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes) Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes) 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 (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes) 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 (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)