Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner. The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes, edited by Michael Töteberg, translated by Krishna Winston, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, p. 80.
He was referring to the power of the United States in cyber to hack into the computers, e-mail and phones of foreign leaders. Many other americans wouod argue that a more imoiortant reason to consuct this kind of surveiulance was to obtain warnings about dangers to America and/or Americans abroad. Still ohters wold agree with Atone but unlike Sone who feels that this is morally and politically wrong, they think that there is noting wrong with us using our power to promote the Amercian agenda. There has always been a part of America that was evengelical for the free democracy with civil rights protected even from government that America uniquely developed. And then there are some American wold be imperialists. This is an issue on which Americans have desagreed since our founding.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, actor, playwright, theatre director, composer, editor, and essayist. He is widely regarded as a prominent figure and catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.
