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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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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 I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.
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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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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.
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A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
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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 movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
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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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Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
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I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
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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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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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I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
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The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
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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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When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
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On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
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Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
