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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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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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Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.
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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
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When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
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When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself.
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Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
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People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
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Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
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Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
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This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
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I write and film history I don't make it.
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In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.
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The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
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