Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wim Wenders
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Photographer
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Dusseldorf
Vimu Vendâsu
Ernst Wilhelm Wenders
Vimu Vendasu
Around
Cinema
Something
Survive
Would
Protect
Think
Building
Protectionism
Thinking
Help
Fence
Helping
Grave
Spirit
European
Cannot
Graves

More quotes by Wim Wenders

Image
It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.
Wim Wenders
Image
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
Wim Wenders
Image
The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
Wim Wenders
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.
Wim Wenders
Image
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
Image
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.
Wim Wenders
Image
I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.
Wim Wenders
Image
I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.
Wim Wenders
Image
Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
Wim Wenders
Image
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?
Wim Wenders
Image
The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?
Wim Wenders
Image
To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.
Wim Wenders
Image
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.
Wim Wenders
Image
Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds
Wim Wenders
Image
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
Image
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.
Wim Wenders
Image
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Wim Wenders
Image
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
Wim Wenders