Wim Wenders
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.Collection: Photography
An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.Collection: Beautiful
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?Collection: Book
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.Collection: Art
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.Collection: Thinking
The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.Collection: Writing
There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.Collection: Dancer
The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.Collection: Subconscious
Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.Collection: Cutting
Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Fun
In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!Collection: Book
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?Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Mom