Wim Wenders Quotes
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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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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I am a Buddhist.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
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At least a bank robber uses his arms to steal money. I am using money to steal an arm.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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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.
