Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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Cinema is movement, after all.
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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
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Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
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TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.
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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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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
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There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.
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Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.
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I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.
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Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
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Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
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To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
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On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
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I write and film history; I don't make it.
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I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
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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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When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
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"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.
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A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
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All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun
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My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
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Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-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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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.
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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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Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
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Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
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