#co

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#change #cinema #constantly #entertainment #kind

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

#conception #confirm #either #film #idea

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

#angeles #anywhere #been #berlin #better

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bad #common #common ground #confidence #disagree

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class. ↗

— Peter Welch

#been #class #congress #conscious #here

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. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#audience #certain #countries #english #european

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#also #america #become #being #consumerism

I not only get recognized - I get recognized from behind. ↗

— George Wendt

#get #i #only #recognized

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#develop #encouraged #expression #failure #fear

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing. ↗

— Robert Welch

#alone #building #committee #congressional #dry