Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
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The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.
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Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
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Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
