Wim Wenders quotes - page 2

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s. (Wim Wenders)
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 soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things. View quote
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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 other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. View quote
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Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. View quote
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My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store. View quote
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If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way. (Wim Wenders)
I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely. View quote
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The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change. View quote
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Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. View quote
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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. View quote
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Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories. View quote
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Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one. View quote
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The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there. View quote
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If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images. View quote
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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. View quote
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Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut. (Wim Wenders)
I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Yanks have colonized our subconscious. View quote
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