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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

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Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

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

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Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and... →

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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... →

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