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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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I never read Karl Marx.
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Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
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I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
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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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I make film to make time pass.
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