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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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