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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.

— 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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