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Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?

Luc Besson
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I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
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Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
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To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson
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I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer
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All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

François Truffaut
François Truffaut
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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval
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The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

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