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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
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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 silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
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I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
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The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
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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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