A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end … but … - Jean-Luc Godard

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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end … but not necessarily in that order.

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About Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, whose works include À bout de souffle, Une Femme est une femme, Vivre sa vie, Le Mépris, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, Week-end and many others.

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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!

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

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

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end … but not necessarily in that order. - Jean-Luc Godard

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