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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: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.
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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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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
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To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
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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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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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I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
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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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Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
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To become immortal, and then to die.
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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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I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.
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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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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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Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.
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One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.
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Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.
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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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The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
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