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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Film Hope Women

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Theatre Cinema Psychology