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Wim Wenders --"My life was saved by Rock'n Roll.
Because it was this kind of music that, for the very first time in my life, gave me a feeling of identity, the feeling that I had a right to enjoy, to imagine, and to do something. Had it not been for Rock'n Roll, I might be a lawyer now.

Wim has worked with musical greats such as Ry Cooder, Daniel Lanois,
Willie Nelson, U2, Bono, Nick Cave, Ronnee Blakley and Lou Reed.

Wim Wenders and U2 have collaborated many times - He shot a video for their contribution to the AIDS benefit album 'Red Hot and Blue', while they've contributed songs to his film 'Until the End of the World', 'Faraway, So Close!' and 'The Million Dollar Hotel', for which Bono ( U2's frontman and leadsinger) also wrote the story, after beeing inspired by a hotel in downtown L.A. during the filming of a music video.

Excerpts from a telephone interview
with Wim, Bono, The Edge and Brian Eno, published in Cinema Sounds Magazine 1993 during the time of U2's Zoo TV tour :

Bono -- I want to tell Brian (Eno) what you said about the way you see films now; Wim listens to them just as much as he watches them."

Wim -- Yes, I remember that during the time we were mixing The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty we had one film and four soundtracks. These days we still have one film and hundreds of soundtracks with an army of sound editors. The image has become secondary in the long process of finishing a film.

Wim -- I feel that our professions are getting more and more alike, you're (Bono) getting closer to images and me to sound. I used to say that my profession consisted of making images and that was true of my first films. I used to shoot, then I mixed and cut, then I remixed and recut and after two months' work the final mix of the film was done in three days. These days it's different.I cut my images in two weeks and slave over the sound for six months. I am becoming more of a sound man than an image man.......

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