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 Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 31st May, 1945 |
| Death: | 10th June, 1982 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Actor, Filmmaker, Producer, Writer |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema. He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making. In a professional career that lasted fewer than fifteen years, Fassbinder completed 40 feature length films; two television film series; three short films; four video productions; twenty-four stage plays and four radio plays; and 36 acting roles in his own and others’ films. He also worked as an actor, author, cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theater manager.
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