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