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"I entered this world on the Champs-Elysees, 1959. La trottoir du Champs Elysees. And do you know what my very first words were? New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!"
"Other people's parents are always nicer than our own, and yet for some reason, our grandparents are always nicer than other people's."
"My parents fucked once in their lives. That's why we're twins, they didn't want to make it twice."
"There's no such thing as love. There are only proofs of love."
"The first time I saw a movie at the cinématèque française I thought, "Only the French... only the French would house a cinema inside a palace.""
"I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they'd been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator; until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist's cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us... from the world."
"I don't believe in God, but if I did, he would be a black, left-handed guitarist."
"As we walked, we talked and talked and talked about politics, about movies, and about why the French could never come close to producing a good rock band."
"I think you prefer when the word "together" means not "a million," but just two."
"I could hear my heart pounding. I don't know if it was because I'd just been chased by the police or because I was already in love with my new friends."
"[Reading]. A revolution isn't a gala dinner. It cannot be created like a book, a drawing or a tapestry. It cannot unfold with such elegance, tranquility and delicacy. Or such sweetness, affability. Courtesy, restraint and generosity. A revolution is an uprising, a violent act by which one class overthrows another."
"Michael Pitt - Matthew"
"Eva Green - Isabelle"
"Louis Garrel - Théo"
"Anna Chancellor - Mother"
"Robin Renucci - Father"
"Jean-Pierre Kalfon - Himself"
"Jean-Pierre Leaud - Himself"
"Florian Cadiou - Patrick"
"Pierre Hancisse - First buff"
"Valentin Merlet - Second buff"
"Lola Peploe - The Usherette"
"Ingy Fillion - Théo's girlfriend"
"Aleksandra Kacprzak (uncredited) - Student May 1968"
"Jean-Paul Belmondo (uncredited, archive footage) - Himself"
"Henri Langlois (uncredited, archive footage) - Himself"
"François Truffaut (uncredited, archive footage) - Himself"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.