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Wim Wenders Inspirational Quotes (62)

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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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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.
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I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
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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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Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
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I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.
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There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
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The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.
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The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.
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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 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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Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.
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Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
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The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?
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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
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In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!
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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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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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I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
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