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When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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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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When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
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I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
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Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
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I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.
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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.
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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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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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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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On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
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