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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
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American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
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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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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.
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When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
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When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
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If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.
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To become immortal, and then to die.
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Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
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I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.
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This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
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When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.
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The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
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Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.
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