Wim Wenders: „«Schauplätze» was my first short film. But it got lost somehow. However, two leftover shots remained and became the first two shots of «Same Player Shoots Again».  They form some kind of prelude. The rest of the film, after the title consists of a three minute shot repeated five times, like the five balls in a pinball machine. It was shot in black and white and then repeated five times, dyed in a different color each time. It did not really turn out a color film. Just a bit of blue, red, yellow and green along the road.”

Wim Wenders: “I was very impressed by the views from the different apartments in which I lived as a student in Munich. And I had a postcard collection. And in the attic of the film school I found a collection of old 78 Shellac records and numbered them consecutively with the same title: Mood Music. A recording mix did not happen. With the 16mm projector of the film school, I recorded them directly onto the audio track by rule of thumb.”

Wim Wenders: “«Reverse Angle» was my first diary film. It is about «new wave music» (among others Jim Jarmusch’s Del Byzanteens), about straying in New York, about the editing process of «Hammett» in the presence of Francis Ford Coppola, about a novel by Emanuel Bove and about Edward Hopper. And somehow the whole thing was a reflection about filmmaking in Europe and America.”