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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
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
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
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
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
I make film to make time pass.
— Jean-Luc Godard
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
— Jean-Luc Godard
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
— 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
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
— Jean-Luc Godard
A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
— Jean-Luc Godard