Wim Wenders Quotes
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I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.
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There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
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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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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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Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
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Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.
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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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In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
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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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It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.
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I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
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The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.
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I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.
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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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It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
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The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?
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Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
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To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.
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Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
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Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
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I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.
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For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
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Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.
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Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we grew up, images were telling stories and showing them. Now they're all into selling. They've changed under our very eyes. They don't even know how to do it anymore. They've plain forgotten. Images are selling out the world. And at a big discount.
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If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.
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The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.
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