Godard Quotes: top 82 famous quotes about Godard

Godard Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Godard quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all. — Jean-Luc Godard

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.' — Jean-Luc Godard

To become immortal, and then to die. — Jean-Luc Godard

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others. — Jean-Luc Godard

Movies are a world of Fragments. — Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second. — Stanley Donen

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. — Jean-Luc Godard

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. — Jean-Luc Godard

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world. — Jean-Luc Godard

One must confront vague ideas with clear images, — Jean-Luc Godard

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie, — Jean-Luc Godard

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. — Jean-Luc Godard

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

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context. — Jean-Luc Godard

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. — Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. — Jean-Luc Godard

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami. — Jean-Luc Godard

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. — 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

When you photograph a face ... you photograph the soul behind it. — Jean-Luc Godard

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen. — Julie Delpy

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. — Jean-Luc Godard

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. — Jean-Luc Godard

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image. — Jean-Luc Godard

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools. — Jean-Luc Godard

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. — Jean-Luc Godard

You knew what was playing at Film Forum, and you corrected anyone who lumped Godard and Truffaut together. — Stephanie Danler

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you. — Jean-Luc Godard

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big. — Jean-Luc Godard

This is not a just image, this is just an image. — Jean-Luc Godard

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms. — Quentin Tarantino

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. — Jean-Luc Godard

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. — Jean-Luc Godard

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error. — Jean-Luc Godard

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip. — Jean-Luc Godard

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second — Jean-Luc Godard

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to. — Jean-Luc Godard

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed. — Jean-Luc Godard

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom? — Jean-Luc Godard

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. — Noah Baumbach

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

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) — Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. — Jean-Luc Godard

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard

To be or not to be. That's not really a question. — Jean-Luc Godard

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts. — Jean-Luc Godard

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him? — Jean-Luc Godard

There are no more simple images ... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images ... — Jean-Luc Godard

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. — Jean-Luc Godard

Every edit is a lie. — Jean-Luc Godard

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. — Haruki Murakami

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries. — Jean-Luc Godard

I make film to make time pass. — Jean-Luc Godard

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. — Jean-Luc Godard

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

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. — Jean-Luc Godard

I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. — Jean-Luc Godard

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer. — Jean-Luc Godard

There is no such thing as intellectual property. — Jean-Luc Godard

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary? — Jean-Luc Godard

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. — Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema. — Jean-Luc Godard

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. — Jean-Luc Godard

Alphaville is the title of one of my favorite movies. Jean-Luc Godard. — Haruki Murakami

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. — Jean-Luc Godard

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. — Jean-Luc Godard

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. — Werner Herzog

To be immortal and then die — Jean-Luc Godard

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

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free. — 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

When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in. — Jean-Luc Godard

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun — Jean-Luc Godard

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

One can enjoy existence, not life. — Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down. — Jean-Luc Godard

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men. — Jean-Luc Godard