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Wim Wenders
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
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Screenwriter
University Teacher
Dusseldorf
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Ernst Wilhelm Wenders
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Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.
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My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.
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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.
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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.
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I heard that Trump said even smelling a book makes him feel tired.
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Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
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Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.
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The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.
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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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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
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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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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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The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.
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It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
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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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Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
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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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