Wim Wenders Quotes

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.
Wim Wenders

Age, Down, Living

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
Wim Wenders

Strong, Spirit, Cuban

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.
Wim Wenders

Change, Today, Another

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

Great, Eyes, Idea

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

Making, Worth, Spirit

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
Wim Wenders

Cinema, Phenomenon, Worldwide

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
Wim Wenders

Sometimes, Longer, Exists

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

Music, Often, Luxury

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

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

Money, Pay, Example

The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim Wenders

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

Fact, Films, Studio

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.
Wim Wenders

Help, Thinking, Cannot

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.
Wim Wenders

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.
Wim Wenders

Criticism, Seems, Suddenly

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

Powerful, Wonderful, Idea

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.
Wim Wenders

Movies, Others, Culture

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

True, Bored, American

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

Life, Poverty, Off

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.
Wim Wenders

True, Soul, Story

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

Amazing, Fact, Last

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
Wim Wenders

Down, American, Late

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.
Wim Wenders

Age, America, Become

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

Today, Hard, Find

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

Past, Real, Film

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Nationality: German

Born: August 14, 1945

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