Wim Wenders Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Wim Wenders

  Cities, Cameras, Painting

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• 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.

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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.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Eye, Perfect

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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?

  Wim Wenders

  Book, Important, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  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.

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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

  Thinking, Experts, Lessons

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

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• 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

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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.

  Wim Wenders

  Music, Complaining, Hardship

  "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.

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• 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

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• The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

  Wim Wenders

  Subconscious

  "Wim Wenders: On a Wim and a prayer". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 2007.

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• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

  Wim Wenders

  Cinema, Phenomenon

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

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• Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

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  Cutting, Worry, Finals

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• Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

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  Criticism, One Day, Entertainment

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

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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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  Stars, Special, Actors

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• 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

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• 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.

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• The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

  Wim Wenders

  Strong, People, Unbroken

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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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  Change, Ideas, People

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

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• 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.

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• It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

  Wim Wenders

  Independent, Cutting, Lists

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

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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.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Writing, Bags

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

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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.

  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.

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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

  Country, Italian, Years

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

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• 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.

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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.

  Wim Wenders

  Money, Example, Dresses

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