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Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
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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 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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When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself.
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There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
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The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.
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Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.
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The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
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There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.
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One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
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Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
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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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On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
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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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Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.
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When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
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American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
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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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