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Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
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Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.
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There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.
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It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.
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A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
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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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Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.
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I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
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To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
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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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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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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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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.
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Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.
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