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31 quotes by Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German pronunciation: [vɪm vɛndəɐs]; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he has received some of the highest international film awards, including the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his drama Paris, Texas; the Golden Lion for the drama The State of Things at the Venice Film...
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Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

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The more opinions you have, the less you see.

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

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I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better... →

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But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says... →

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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... →

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Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

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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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