Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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I make film to make time pass.
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I prefer to work when there are people against whom I have to struggle.
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Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
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I am trying to change the world.
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I know nothing of life except through the cinema.
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I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
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I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.
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When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them.
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To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
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We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
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The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.
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More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'
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Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.
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Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
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People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
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Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
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You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.
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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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I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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One has to change one's life. Maybe this is easier for people who have nothing to do than for those who have something to do.