Wim Wenders Quotes & Sayings

“The more opinions you have, the less you see.”

“The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.”

“Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.”

“Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.”

“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.”

“But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”