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When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.
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On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
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Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
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People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start the cinema doesn't.
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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.
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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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Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.
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Photography is truth.
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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
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To become immortal, and then to die.
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This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
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