Fassbinder Quotes

“The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art.”
― Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

“Reconciling Sirk's or Fassbinder's cynicism with a leftist political agenda has always struck me as problematic. Both directors tended to deal with characters incapable of understanding their own social victimization and, moore often than not, incapable of change. [...] ...their sophistication consisted chiefly of recognizing corruption and stupidity, not of imagining situations where they might be overcome.”
― Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors