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1. "Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho." ~ Jean Luc Godard

2. "Take a drawing by Matisse, a simple curve of a leg or a shoulder. Is there a basis, at the beginning when he starts drawing his curve? There isn't. This is what I'm trying to say. And that's what comprises the originality of Max Ophuls, which he acquired a little bit at a time, because in Liebelei, in Letter from an Unknown Woman, in his American films, it's not there. It's a freedom that is earned and that is found, that isn't applied. On a basic level, it's neither better nor worse as a way of making a film. But there's something extremely original that we found so satisfying back in the day and that continues to satisfy me now … There's a kind of pure cinema of that era – you might even call it experimental – which has disappeared. There's no literature…not that there's no text or dialogue, but there's no pre-literature.(Jean-Luc Godard in conversation with Marcel Ophuls, 2002)" ~ Jean Luc Godard

3. "Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema." ~ Jean Luc Godard

4. "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." ~ Jean Luc Godard

5. "The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second" ~ Jean Luc Godard

6. "A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." ~ Jean Luc Godard

7. "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." ~ Jean Luc Godard

8. "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." ~ Jean Luc Godard

9. "To be or not to be. That's not really a question." ~ Jean Luc Godard

10. "I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas." ~ Jean Luc Godard

11. "Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second." ~ Jean Luc Godard

12. "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." ~ Jean Luc Godard

13. "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." ~ Jean Luc Godard

14. "Every edit is a lie." ~ Jean Luc Godard

15. "You don't make a movie, the movie makes you." ~ Jean Luc Godard

16. "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." ~ Jean Luc Godard

17. "One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together." ~ Jean Luc Godard

18. "I make film to make time pass." ~ Jean Luc Godard

19. "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." ~ Jean Luc Godard

20. "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." ~ Jean Luc Godard

21. "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)" ~ Jean Luc Godard

22. "It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to." ~ Jean Luc Godard

23. "To be immortal and then die" ~ Jean Luc Godard

24. "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." ~ Jean Luc Godard

25. "The world isn't a sad place, it's just big." ~ Jean Luc Godard

26. "Mirrors should reflect before sending an image." ~ Jean Luc Godard

27. "First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass." ~ Jean Luc Godard

28. "Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde." ~ Jean Luc Godard

29. "When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other." ~ Jean Luc Godard

30. "Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form." ~ Jean Luc Godard

31. "Poetry is a game of loser-take-all." ~ Jean Luc Godard

32. "My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof." ~ Jean Luc Godard

33. "I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything." ~ Jean Luc Godard

34. "Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?" ~ Jean Luc Godard

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