Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".
Godard was born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris. He attended school in Nyon, Switzerland, and at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave.
Many of Godard's films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history. In addition, Godards' films often cited existential and Marxist philosophy.
“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”
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“Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.”
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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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“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
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“Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?”
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“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”
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“What is your greatest ambition in life?''To become immortal... and then die.”
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“Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.”
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“First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.”
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“Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
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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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“Photography is truth.”
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“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
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“Every edit is a lie.”
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“My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.”
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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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“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)”
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“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”
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“To be immortal and then die”
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“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”
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“Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.”
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“There is no such thing as intellectual property.”
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“Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.”
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“The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.”
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“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”
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“ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."...ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.”
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