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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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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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When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
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Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
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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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People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
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Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
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When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
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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 don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
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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.
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There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.
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The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
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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 silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
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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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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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I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
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There is no such thing as intellectual property.
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