82 Quotes by Wim Wenders

That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something.You have a wish.You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.

Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.

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

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.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

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.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

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

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.