'Film stories are something like tavel routes. A map is the most exciting thing in the world for me; when I see a map I immediately feel restless, especially when it is a map of a country or city where I have never been before. I look at all the different names and want to know what they refer to — the streets of a city, the cities of a country. When I look at a map it eventually turns into an allegory of life itself. I can only bear to look at maps if I try to chart a path and to follow it through the city or country. Stories do just that: they provide orientation in an unknown territory, where otherwise you would travel to a thousand different . places without ever getting anywhere.’
Wim Wenders, 'Impossible Stories', in The Logic of Images London: Faber, 1991).
Wim Wenders, 'Impossible Stories', in The Logic of Images London: Faber, 1991).
