“It wasn’t until Alice in the Cities that I actually acknowledged myself as a film director. Until then I had always identified myself as a writer. I remember the moment exactly. When shooting the film in New York, we registered at a hotel on Eighty-first Street, and I wrote down my profession as ‘Film director.’ It seemed preposterous, but ever since that’s what I am.”

Wim Wenders (born August 14, 1945)