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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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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.
Wim Wenders
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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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Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.
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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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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.
Wim Wenders -
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
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Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
Wim Wenders
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Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.
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An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.
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Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.
Wim Wenders -
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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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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It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
Wim Wenders