The Polaroid photos were taken during a rare break from work. On weekends, when he wasn't fully immersed in his day job, Robbie Mueller would pull out an SX-70, 600, Spectra, or whatever Polaroid camera he was using at the time and start capturing the everyday details he saw around him.
据文德斯说，《爱丽丝漫游城市》（Alice in the Cities, 1974）是他的第四部长片，在他决定是否继续当电影制片人的时候出现了一个重要的转折点。他认为他的前两部电影过于依赖约翰·卡萨维茨（John Cassavetes）和阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克（Alfred Hitchcock），而他的第三部电影是对《红字》（The Scarlet Letter: A Romance）的改编[1]，这是不明智的。《爱丽丝漫游城市》是一次有自觉尝试，文德斯要拍出只有他能拍出的东西。
