Wim Sorry Quotes

#1. Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Wim Wenders

#2. Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

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#3. 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.

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#4. The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

Wim Crouwel

#5. In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding
something personal.

Wim Crouwel

#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

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#12. 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.

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#13. The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

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#16. Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

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#17. For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. I draw on a lot of cinematic influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, artists who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be allowed to tell some of that story.

Jeff Lemire

#21. Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

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#22. I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

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#23. 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.

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

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#25. the more opinions you have, the less you see

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#26. What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's openly?

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#27. The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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