The conversation between Wim Wenders and
Melinda Camber Porter (1953-2008) took place on location in December
1983, while Mr. Wenders was shooting his first American Film, Paris Texas.
With this publication, we have an opportunity to listen to Wim Wenders
discuss his approach to filmmaking, in conversation with Melinda Camber
Porter, during the development and filmmaking process of Paris Texas.
America was a place of European immigrants, German immigrants, and a
vast land stretching to California. Men and women were becoming
disillusioned and seeking that something just out of reach.
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Melinda Camber Porter asked Wim Wenders:
“When you say men have certain expectations of women, what exactly do
you mean? Wim Wenders explains, “We still have to find out what we mean
by that, because ‘the character’ hasn’t really understood that yet [in
shooting the film, Paris Texas]. The character is getting ready
to confront the issue. I do not work so a film is laid out and people
can spell it out. I work much more on intuition … Sometimes film making
is very much based on very subconscious choices or intuitions.”
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