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If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
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I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.
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Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.
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I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
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I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start the cinema doesn't.
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Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
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The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.
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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.
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We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.
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The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.
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