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. Wim Wenders Read Quote
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 that things can be changed. Wim Wenders Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. Wim Wenders Read Quote
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. Wim Wenders Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. Wim Wenders Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
