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Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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There is no such thing as intellectual property.
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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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Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
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There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.
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Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.
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When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.
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When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
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I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.
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I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.
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Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
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I make film to make time pass.
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I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.
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People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
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Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
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In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
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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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I never read Karl Marx.
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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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This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
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