Wim Wenders Quotes
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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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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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I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
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The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.
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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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My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.
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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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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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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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Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
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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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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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Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds
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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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In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
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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 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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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
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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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Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
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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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The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?
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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!