- Wim Wenders: It felt good just to look out the window. If only it were possible to film like that, I thought to myself, like when you open your eyes sometimes just to look without wanting to prove anything.
- Wim Wenders: This game induces a kind of hypnosis. Winning is hardly important. But, time passes, you lose touch with yourself for a while, you merge with the machine, and perhaps, you forget, what you always wanted to forget.
- Wim Wenders: Tokyo was like a dream and today, my own images appear to me as if they were invented. Like when, after a long time, you find a slip of paper on which you once had scribbled down a dream on the first light of dawn. You read it in amazement and you don't recognize a thing as if it were someone else's dream.
- Wim Wenders: It was only upon seeing a little boy in the subway, a boy who simply did not want to take another step, that I realized why my images of Tokyo seemed to me like those of a sleepwalker. No other city, along with these people, has ever felt so familiar and so intimate to me long before I ever managed to go there, namely for the films of ozu.