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There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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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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When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.
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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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Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)
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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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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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People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
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If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
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Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.
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Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.
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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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I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.
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