- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The theater is not enough for me.
- Kurt Raab: What do you want to do?
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Movies. Movies abour this country. The material is lying on the streets. I already wrote 3 movies and have 4 movies in my head.
- [Kurt is impressed]
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Wherever you go is material that is about how people see their dreams and how their dreams get destroyed. The theater can't do it. Only cinema can do it.
- Kurt Raab: Are you only gay?
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: I am a lot of things. But mainly gay. And I am into gastarbeiter.
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: [to Andy Warhol, in English] You have to go where it hurts. I always go where it hurts. In life and in films.
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Marriage is dishonest and destructive. Like all of you. All my movies are about that.
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: From puberty onwards, everyone is responsible for one's face. I like to provoke.