3 Quotes & Sayings By Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. His films include the "Berlin Trilogy", "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant", "War of the Roses", "Lola", "" and numerous other films. He worked in both fiction and non-fiction genres.

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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. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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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. Rainer Werner Fassbinder