Filmmaker Wim Wenders started out as an art film director. But a series of box office failures took its toll. Now, with some successes behind him, he has a new attitude: ” ‘I think films are not art. I think rock’n’roll is not art. It has great songs, but it’s not art. And film and rock’n’roll are very much the same.’ Those difficult years of failure stripped him not only of faith in himself, but in the medium that was his métier for so long.” – The Telegraph (UK) 04/23/00