I like the idea of making ...

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.
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 Jean-Luc Godard

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Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
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 Jean-Luc Godard
I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
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 Jean-Luc Godard
Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real audience - a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other nknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their problems in big. Not in small.
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Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?
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 Jean-Luc Godard
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
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 Jean-Luc Godard