Latest Wim Wenders Quotes from Interviews

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• I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

  Wim Wenders

  Memories, Real, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.

  Wim Wenders

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.

  Wim Wenders

  Writing, Character, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!

  Wim Wenders

  Book, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.

  Wim Wenders

  Book, Tired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

  Wim Wenders

  Dancer, Actors, Can Do

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Color, Essence, Scary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Mom, Reading, Italian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Wish, Looks

  "Wim Wenders Looks Back at His Road Films With 'Portraits Along the Road' Retrospective". Interview with Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Art, Expression, Different

  "Wim Wenders Looks Back at His Road Films With 'Portraits Along the Road' Retrospective". Interview with Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

• Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

  Wim Wenders

  Photography, Art, Actors

  "Wim Wenders Looks Back at His Road Films With 'Portraits Along the Road' Retrospective". Interview with Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

• Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

  Wim Wenders

  Answers, Way, Problem

• 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

  Thinking, Experts, Lessons

  "Director Wim Wenders PINA Interview". Roundtable interview, collider.com. December 21, 2011.

• 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.

  Wim Wenders

  Stars, Special, Actors

• The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

  Wim Wenders

  Creativity, Adventure, Imagination

  "Director Wim Wenders PINA Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 21, 2011.