Wim Wenders Quotes
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I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.
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The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
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Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
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My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.
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If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
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Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.
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Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
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Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds
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Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
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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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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 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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The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.
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In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!
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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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Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
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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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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
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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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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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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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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.