Wim Wenders Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”