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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (pronounced [ˈʀaɪ̯nɐ ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfasˌbɪndɐ]; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.

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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

Analysis, Capitalism, Defense, Idea, Ideas

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

Filmmaker, Germany, Mexico

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.

Believe, Feelings, People, Taken

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.

Believe, Ideas, Instead, Lead, Salvation, Two

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.

Cinema, Nothing, Psychology, Theatre, Used

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

Evil, Good, Make, People, Sick

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.

Beautiful, Dream, German, Powerful, Wonderful

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Insidious, Love, Love Is, Repression, Social

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.

Build, Cellar, Film, House, Wall

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

Enough, Homosexuality, Stupid

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.

Effect, Goal, People, Reality, Realize, See

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

Bears, Disposable, Hard, Lessons, People

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.

Beautiful, Easy, Suffering

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