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" You don't make a movie, the movie makes you. "
Jean-Luc Godard
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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 of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. "
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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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" I know nothing of life except through the cinema. "
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" To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated. "
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" The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie. "
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" I make film to make time pass. "
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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. "
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" I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. "
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" A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. "
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" I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie. "
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