As proud as I am of European cinema, the way to make it survive is not to make it an endangered species but to put it out there in the world.
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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.Wim Wenders
I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.
Wim Wenders
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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Havana is one of the poorest cities I've been in the last few years and yet we were never asked for money from anybody during our stay.
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utterly self-absorbed and isolated itself more and more from the rest of the world. That was very painful for somebody like me who loves America and didn't want to see it pervert all its virtues.
Wim Wenders
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.
Wim Wenders
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