Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
“What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well! — Wim Wenders Copy Share
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. — Wim Wenders Copy Share
If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because… — Wim Wenders Copy Share
