Back to Room 666 (2008)

Wim Wenders: Self

Quotes 

• Wim Wenders : Cinema make us be, sometimes, really serious because it survives all of us. There, the film survived Michelangelo... and this film here will survive me. One of the most curious and mysterious forces of cinema, is that it survives all of us. And that's why sometimes in front of the cameras, it's all a matter of live and death. So, there is enough reasons to be serious.

• [last lines] 

  Wim Wenders : Cinema is new, as it always has been, because people need it. They need this tools more than anything. We all know that the "word", spoken and written word, belong to the cultures of the past. And that the future of our culture is "image". And this future has just started. OK? Thank you very much.

• Wim Wenders : It is also known that it is possible to lie through media other than the cinema. Lying is always possible.

  [points to the window] 

  Wim Wenders : Outside it seems as if the whole world is cold, a harsh winter, but if I open the window, here, I may see the real light that is outside, and it is warm. It is not only the camera that lie, the windows also do it.

• Wim Wenders : That is why cinema was created, as if it were our mirror. A "digital" mirror is as valid as our old cinematographic mirror one.

• Wim Wenders : It is really amazing when I think of how pessimistic was our prediction, in that year of 1982. It is amazing how the cinema was maintained that well. It hasn't just surpassed our higher expectations in the prior moment, the 90s and today, the XXI Century, but in fact saved itself from the whole it was in. The cinema is more alive than ever.