>Fassbinder knew Sirk and even persuaded to direct three short films
>with students.
>Sirk loved fassbinder and his work.
John Waters said this about seeing the two of them together:
>When Sirks' movies came out they were thought to be women's pictures
>and they were kind of dismissed by the critics. Fassbinder certainly
>kind of reinvented that. I met him with Sirk when they were together
>at the Berlin Film Festival, I almost fell to my knees.
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/waters/waters-filth-101-2001.html