Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
Jean-Luc GodardRead
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
Interpretation
Stories simplify the complexities of reality by providing structure and meaning.
This quote by Jean-Luc Godard suggests that the intricacies of real life can often be overwhelming and difficult to grasp. By framing these complexities as stories, we can comprehend and relate to them more easily, transforming abstract reality into something tangible and understandable.
In practice
In a lecture about narrative structures in cinema.
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'
Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.
Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.
All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
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