"The American method of making films left the audience with emotions and nothing else; I want to give the spectator the emotions along with the possibility of reflecting on and analyzing what he is feeling."

(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, regista, sceneggiatore, attore, montatore e scrittore; Bad Wörishofen, 31 maggio 1945 – Monaco di Baviera, 10 giugno 1982)