MONTAGE  GODARD POETRY

Film is truth
at twenty-four-frames
per-second

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Cinema is not a reflection
of reality
It is the reality
of the reflection

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As a moviemaker
I'm between
Coppola and
The Minister of Information
in Mozambique

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People like to think of themselves as
stations or terminals
not as trains or planes
between airports.
I like to think of myself
as an airplane,
not an airport.

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There are too many things in the game,
too much money,
too many stories,
too much law,
too many dreams,
too many calculations,
too much oversight.
And that is what people like.
Film is a revolutionary art.
Because it is the sensation
of movement
and such a sensation
doesn't exist
with a Grecian urn

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I am very interested
in noise.
Even when a small blade of grass
is growing,
there is a noise between the grass
and the earth.

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When you use the camera
as a weapon
you become
an informer

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Simplicity is virtuous
Candor is elegant
And in film
you could say that
Imperialism is a sect of people
who want to make a movie
their way.

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The moment our society
creates its own destiny
and calls its own liberty "destiny",
destiny returns the ball
and calls this liberty "limited"

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People think of their bodies
as territories.
They think of their skin
as the border,
and that it is no longer them
once it's outside the border.
But a language
is obviously made to cross
borders
I'm someone whose real country
is language,
and whose territory
is movies