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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Jean-Luc Godard

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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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[I think] the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.

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.

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

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