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Famous Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
“Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.”
“The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.”
“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”
“I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.”
“What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.”
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”
“Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.”
“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.”
“To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.”
“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”
“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”
“To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.”
“To become immortal, and then to die.”
“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”