Quotations From JEAN-LUC GODARD

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

  Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930), French filmmaker, author. Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960).
  
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  Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

  Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930), French filmmaker, author. repr. In Godard, on Godard, ed. and trans. by Tom Milne (1968). "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).
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  The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

  Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930), French filmmaker, author. repr. In Godard on Godard, ed. and trans. by Tom Milne (1968). "Strangers on a Train," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, March 10, 1952).
  
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  All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

  Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930), French filmmaker, author. Journal entry, May 16, 1991. quoted in Projections, eds. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (1992).
  
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