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Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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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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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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People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
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If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.
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This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
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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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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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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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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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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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Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.
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If I'm speaking it means that in one way or another when I say, I'm cold it belongs to me: I'm cold. But just by saying this it becomes general.
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When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.
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To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
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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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Cinema is movement, after all.
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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
Jean-Luc Godard