Quotes by Rainer Fassbinder

• The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
• 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.
• Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
• 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.
• 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.