Wim Wenders Quotes

Wim Wenders (32)

Birth:	14th August, 1945
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Author, Film Director, Photographer, Playwriter

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• On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Message, Change

• Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reinforce, Confirm

• In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

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  Tags in Remaining, Market

• For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

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  Tags in Mainly, Luxury

• I’m getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cinema, Division, Bored

• So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

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  Tags in Defining, Bored

• Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

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  Tags in Says, Spirit

• But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cinema, Fence

• Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Distributors, Ticket

• I’ve never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

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  Tags in Complains, Anywhere

• The more opinions you have, the less you see.

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  Tags in Opinions, Less

• Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

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  Tags in Supports, Change, Changed

• The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

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  Tags in Drain, Gone

• Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

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  Topics in Movies

• Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.

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  Topics in Break Up

  Tags in Documented

• Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

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  Tags in Edward, Paintings

• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

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  Tags in Cinema

• Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it’s up to you.

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  Tags in Says, Entertainment

• Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

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  Tags in Realised, Backed

• Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

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