Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Jean-Luc Godard
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

Jean-Luc Godard
... the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.

Jean-Luc Godard
Georges Franju: Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end.
Jean-Luc Godard: Certainly, but not necessarily in that order.

Jean-Luc Godard
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Jean-Luc Godard
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean team-work. One is always alone; on the set as before the blank page.

Jean-Luc Godard
Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

Jean-Luc Godard
I don't know if I'm free because I'm unhappy or unhappy because I'm free.

Jean-Luc Godard
More and more I see the human predicament as a dialogue between lovers.

Jean-Luc Godard
People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

Jean-Luc Godard
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

Jean-Luc Godard
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

Jean-Luc Godard
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Jean-Luc Godard
Photography is truth... and the cinema is the truth twenty-four times a second.

Jean-Luc Godard
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

Jean-Luc Godard
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard
When I hear the word culture, I take out my chequebook.

Jean-Luc Godard
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Jean-Luc Godard
At the cinema we do not think, we are thought.

Jean-Luc Godard
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body—both go together, they can't be separated.

Jean-Luc Godard
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

Jean-Luc Godard
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Jean-Luc Godard
Film is like a battleground: There's love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word, emotions.

Jean-Luc Godard
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

Jean-Luc Godard