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. Wh… - Jean-Luc Godard

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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!

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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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Pen Names: Hans Lucas
Alternative Names: Jean Luc Godard
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Fifty years after the October Revolution, the American industry rules cinema the world over. There is nothing much to add to this statement of fact. Except that on our own modest level we too should provoke two or three Vietnams in the bosom of the vast Hollywood-Cinecittá-Mosfilm-Pinewood-etc. empire, and, both economically and aesthetically, struggling on two fronts as it were, create cinemas which are national, free, brotherly, comradely and bonded in friendship.

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