Rainer Werner Fassbinder // "Cheerfulness that’s characterized as cheerfulness by the usual signs usually isn’t the real thing. I’m cheerful in a certain way, and it’s for myself... when a person who’s eating feels it’s necessary to keep saying “Oh, what a marvelous piece of meat!” or “This sauce is incredibly delicious!” I have a strange feeling that for some reason he has to talk himself into believing it. Or if you’re out for a walk and the other person keeps saying how lovely it is to go walking with you... Someone who always feels the necessity to say what he may or may not be feeling–he must have to talk himself into it... In principle I’m not against expressing something now and then, on the contrary, language is a significant means of getting things across, after all. But I just think it shouldn’t be a constant thing."