Claude Jade/films With Fran%C3%A7ois Truffaut

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    I was so angry to realize I’m a Quebecois, with no past, no history, just two cans of maple syrup.
    —Jean Claude Lauzon (b. 1954)

    Do not pray for gold and jade and precious things; pray that your children and grandchildren may all be good.
    Chinese proverb.

    Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.
    David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)

    I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
    —François Truffaut (1932–1984)