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Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#changed #making #movie #says #spirit

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. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#building #cannot #cinema #european #fence

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#fish #like #man #without #woman

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

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#critics #each #exists #filmmakers #harshly

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#doing #european #had #i #lobbying

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#been #bored #cinema #division #early

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