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1 " He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. "
― Jean-Luc Godard
2 " The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second "
3 " To be immortal and then die "
― Jean-Luc Godard , Breathless
4 " To be or not to be. That's not really a question. "
5 " Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. "
6 " All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. "
7 " All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat. "
8 " i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. "
9 " Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. "
10 " A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. "
11 " Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. "
12 " 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 , Alphaville
13 " What is your greatest ambition in life?''To become immortal... and then die. "
14 " Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him? "
15 " The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. "
― Jean-Luc Godard , Godard on Godard: Critical Writings
16 " When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. "
17 " It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to. "
18 " 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 , La Nouvelle Vague
19 " Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie. "
20 " First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. "
