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When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
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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'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.
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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
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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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If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.
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