People often criticize my films for being pessimistic. There are certainly plenty of reasons for being pessimistic, but I don’t see my films that way. They are founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen, but … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 31, 1945

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. —Rainer Werner Fassbinder Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, May 31, 2013

You can’t make films about things, you can only make films with things, with people, with light, with flowers, with mirrors, with blood, in fact with all the fantastic things which make life worth living. —Rainer Werner Fassbinder Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, May 9, 2013