Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
Top 74 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jean-Luc Godard on Wise Famous Quotes.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
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.
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass.
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.
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.
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)
There are no more simple images ... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images ...
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.
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.