"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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Source : "Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard" by David Sterritt, www.csmonitor.com. August 03, 1994.

Jean-Luc Godard

#Thinking Quotes #Atoms Quotes #Way Quotes

“I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.”
“I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.”
“For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.”
“We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.”
“FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are laws of the universe and if you practice them they will respond to you.”
“I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.”

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