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Jean-Luc Godard has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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.
• I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a…
• When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.
• First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
• 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.
• The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
• American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that…
• Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
• In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But…
• I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere…

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