Wim Wenders Quotes

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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... Stories are substitutes for God. Or maybe the other way round.

Wim Wenders

The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

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The camera is a weapon against the tragedy of things, against their disappearing.

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What I fear most is an overdose of images. I fear losing the ability to discriminate between the good and the ugly.

Wim Wenders

A lot of my films start off with roadmaps instead of scripts. Sometimes it feels like flying blind without instruments. You fly all night and in the morning you arrive somewhere. That is: you have to try to make a landing somewhere so the film can end.

Wim Wenders

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

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Born: August 14, 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema.

Known for:

Wings of Desire (1987)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
The Salt of the Earth (2014)

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