Wim Wenders Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

  Wim Wenders

  Eye, Ideas, Support

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain"". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Change, Ideas, People

  ""The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain"". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Europe, Somewhere Else, Bored

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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

  Country, Italian, Years

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, Real, Criticism

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Independent, Criticism, Age

  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Four, Film, Late

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

  Wim Wenders

  Style, Facts, Film

  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Europe, America, Criticism

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Fun, Italian, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Real, Past, Criticism

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

• 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?

  Wim Wenders

  Book, Important, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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