My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Wim Wenders More Quotes by Wim Wenders More Quotes From Wim Wenders Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. Wim Wenders courage dream directors If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way. Wim Wenders peculiar order thinking Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie. Wim Wenders once-upon-a-time stories firsts 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. Wim Wenders decisions-you-make eye people I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things. Wim Wenders real sometimes memories The more opinions you have, the less you see. Wim Wenders filmmaker opinion acceptance 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. Wim Wenders reason writing character The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination. Wim Wenders creativity imagination adventure Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. Wim Wenders violin tea sex Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed. Wim Wenders powerful way ideas 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 painting cameras cities I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely. Wim Wenders eye happens thinking I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible. Wim Wenders wish looks thinking Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we grew up, images were telling stories and showing them. Now they're all into selling. They've changed under our very eyes. They don't even know how to do it anymore. They've plain forgotten. Images are selling out the world. And at a big discount. Wim Wenders telling-stories eye world 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? Wim Wenders film important book Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories. Wim Wenders selfish humble memories Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance. Wim Wenders problem answers way 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. Wim Wenders opposites beautiful mean 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. Wim Wenders cutting pride wise Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes. Wim Wenders support eye ideas
