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Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.

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The tree or the road - the ones I know of, finally they are the only characters I know really. The human characters I don't know. So there is both something I know and something I don't know. And I put them together.

Character, Characters, Human, Together, Tree

To become immortal, and then to die.

Become, Die, Dies, Immortal

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.

Style, Together, Body, Human

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal. . . and then die.

Ambition, Breathless, Immortal, Life, Greatest

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.

Feeling, Feelings, Film, Illustration, Perfect

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

Beginning, Discovery, Gadgets, Important

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Mirrors, Should, Image, Reflect, Sending

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

Average, Income, Months, Live

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Cinema, Ideas, Moments, Phrasing

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

Continue, Discover, Grammar, See, Things

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

Art, Thinking, Cinema, Moments, Good

In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.

Europe, House, Needs, Smaller, Becoming

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

Call, He Man, Man, Men, Middle

When you photograph a face. . . you photograph the soul behind it.

Face, Faces, Photograph, Photography, Soul

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

Energy, Front, Fronts, Light, Towards

I write and film history; I don't make it.

Film, Film History, History, Write, Writing

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Beautiful, Cinema, Fraud, Gambling, Movie

We are all older and more tired.

Older, Tired

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

Center, Hold, Said, Talking, Yeats

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

Letters, Painter, Restore, Want

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