Wim Wenders Quotes

• 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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• Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

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• What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

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Wim Wenders (32)

Birth:	14th August, 1945
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Author, Film Director, Photographer, Playwriter

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