Wim Wenders Quotes

Most journalists today work for the film industry and not as a sort of mirror of the industry. And that phenomenon has struck the French as well.

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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, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

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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.

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At the moment it is much more unknown to me here than in the American west, which I know quite well now -- much better than Saxony, Mecklenburg or even Bavaria.

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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 that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

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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 being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

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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 countries over the last few years.

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Every kid in Cuba knows what the dollar is worth, it is the other currency and there are many things you can only buy with American dollars.

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I grew up in postwar Germany. It was the opposite of the American West. The West became in my mind the ideal place on this planet. When I got there, I felt more at home than anywhere.

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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 that things can be changed.

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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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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 protect it.

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The more opinions you have, the less you see.

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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 now living in.

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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 can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

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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 or injustice.

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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 quality of film criticism.

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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.

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I was in the forefront of that discussion for many years and as chairman and president of the European Film Academy had many long debates over this.

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Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

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Havana is one of the poorest cities I've been in the last few years and yet we were never asked for money from anybody during our stay.

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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 industry instead of being a counterbalance.

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

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

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Everything is entertainment criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

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