Wim Wenders - road movies

" I always enjoy being home wherever I am "


Wim Wenders

A fissured, empty, almost lunar landscape - seen from a bird's-eye view. The camera

hovers over it. In the distance, a lone man appears; he is crossing this desert.


A hawk lands on a boulder.

The man stops, looks at the bird.

Then he drinks the last drops of water from a large plastic bottle.

He is wearing a cheap Mexican suit, a red baseball cap and sandals

with bandages wrapped around them. His clothes are covered with dust

and soaked with sweat. He has been walking for a long time.

This is Travis.



Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas (1) DESERT LANDSCAPE EXTERIOR, DAY

"Filmmaking... should just remain a way of life sometimes,

like taking a walk, reading a newspaper, eating, writing

notes, driving a car or shooting this film here, for instance,

made from day to day, carried along by nothing other

than its curiosity - a notebook on cities and clothes."


Wim Wenders

"Until The End of the World is a tale

of love and hope - a metaphor for

the journey we must

all take toward our future ...

the ultimate road movie."

Wim Wenders

"When he disappears, in a way this is when his true self appears, this is when he all

of a sudden sees things about the city, about his own life, about his feelings that he

hasn't seen before. So, in a way, another person appears, a much more sincere

person than the power player he was before. I think disappearing is always just a

metaphor for something else that appears."

Wim Wenders

"In Cuba, the music flows like a river.

I want to make a film that'll just float on

this river - not interfering with it,

just drifting along."

Wim Wenders

"My Ten Minutes deals with three R's, the Road,

Rock'n Roll and the Relativity of Time. They're based

on a personal experience, I'm afraid to say, and even if

I took some liberties, I did not exaggerate."

Wim Wenders