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Wim Wenders Biography

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: [vɪm vɛndɐs]; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture, Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch, and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.

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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.

Adventure, Creativity, Imagination, Left, Planet

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Cinema, Phenomenon, Worldwide

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.

Cinema, Doing You, Fun, Italian, Relations, Studios

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Humble, Memories, Perspective, Selfish, Time

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Action, Courage, Directors, Dream, Dreams

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.

Day, Decisions You Make, Direct, Eye, Human, People

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Certain, Country, Films, Italian, Territory, Years

I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.

Anymore, Like, Million, Things, Younger

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.

Art, Connected, Different, Expression, Expressions

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.

Cinema, Think, Thinking, Would Be

The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

Colonized, Subconscious, Yanks

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

People, Spirit, Strong, Unbroken

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

Cut, Cutting, Final, Finals, Worry

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

Came, Firsts, Picture, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Thing, Thousand

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Keep, Memories, Preservation, Real, Sometimes

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Advice, Money, Record, Records, Stores

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.

Imagine, Impossible, Looks, Make, Thinking, Wish

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.

Beautiful, Mean, Nothing, Opposites, Today, Worthshit

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.

Beautiful, Contaminates, Eye, Image, Long, Seen

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Criticism, French, Movie, Real, World

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