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In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

— Jean-Luc Godard

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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

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.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

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