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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: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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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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In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.
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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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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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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
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Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.
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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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Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.
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Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
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Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
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When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
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There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
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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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The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.
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Photography is truth.
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This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
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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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People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
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One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
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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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