Shooting with her was like working with an old acquaintance. Interestingly, Wenders chose to shoot The End Of Violence in Los Angeles for a number of reasons. It was a place he viewed as wrapped in the fabrication of violence. The very idea of violence, for audiences over the world, is partly originated by an imagery produced in Los Angeles, in movies and in music. As far as politics are concerned, I tend to believe any story in which crime control, be it police force, CIA, FBI, etc, has perverted into crime itself, or in which crime is finally controlling the controllers.
Violence is an unhealthy climate, in real life as well as in the movies.
Whatever it was that catalysed such a dramatic twist in his path is not exactly known, but by the time he had completed his studies he had directed a number of short films including Schauplatze , Same Player Shoots Again , Silver City and films which focused on articles on film, the biographical and rock 'n' roll for the Suddeutsche Zeitung, Twe and Filmkritik . Towards the late '70s he accepted Francis Ford Coppola's offer to direct a film in the U.S. based on Dashiell Hammett's biography. Still in the U.S. he shot Nick's Movie , a portrait of film-maker Nicholas Ray whom he much admired, and Paris, Texas , a haunting tale of nostalgia and the quest for lost happiness. He was also honoured by receiving the Doctor Honoris Causa of the Sorbonne University position and today is the President Of the European Film Academy and professor at the Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen. Bilder und Geschicten .