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I write and film history I don't make it.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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I never read Karl Marx.
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Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.
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Photography is truth.
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Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.
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Living, it can be sad too.
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If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
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I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.
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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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In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!
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A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
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When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.
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Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
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