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“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
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“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”
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“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
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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)”
― La Nouvelle Vague
― La Nouvelle Vague
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
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“To be immortal and then die”
― Breathless
― Breathless
“Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
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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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“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.”
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- Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.”
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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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“The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.”
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“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
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“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal... and then die.”
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'To become immortal... and then die.”
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“Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.”
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“Every edit is a lie.”
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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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“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
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“Photography is truth.”
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“In a sense, fear is the daughter of God, redeemed on Good Friday. She is not beautiful, mocked, cursed or disowned by all. But don’t be mistaken, she watches over all mortal agony, she intercedes for mankind; for there is a rule and an exception. Culture is the rule, and art is the exception. Everybody speaks the rule; cigarette, computer, t-shirt, television, tourism, war. Nobody speaks the exception. It isn’t spoken, it is written; Flaubert, Dostoyevsky. It is composed; Gershwin, Mozart. It is painted; Cézanne, Vermeer. It is filmed; Antonioni, Vigo. Or it is lived, then it is the art of living; Srebrenica, Mostar, Sarajevo. The rule is to want the death of the exception. So the rule for cultural Europe is to organise the death of the art of living, which still flourishes.”
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“There is no such thing as intellectual property.”
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“Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.”
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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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“I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.”
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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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“Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.”
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“My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.”
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“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”
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“Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That’s why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.”
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“It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.”
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“Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.”
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