“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

Cited in: Tim Concannon, Praising Arizona http://www.blackmassmovies.com/docs/Praising%20Arizona.pdf, March 2013 Source: Los Angeles Free Press, March 15, 1968. Gene Youngblood

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French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic 1930

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