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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
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Jean-Luc Godard
film director, actor, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer, film editor, writer, film critic, television director, television producer, video artist, film screenwriter, director
1930 – 2022
Jean-Luc Godard was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.
All Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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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
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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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[I think] 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
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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!
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To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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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
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Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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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
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
— Jean-Luc Godard