Quotes by
Jean-Luc Godard |
1930-2022 , French film director
French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He came to prominence with the New Wave group in France during the late 1950s and the ’60s. | 18 quotes | 2,320 visits |
Quotations
| • | To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 8 |
| • | He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. 8 |
| • | A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. 5 |
| • | My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. 5 |
| • | First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. 4 |
| • | It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to. 3 |
| • | Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. 3 |
| • | Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one’s back on American cinema 3 |
| • | I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. 3 |
| • | Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. 2 |
| • | All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. 2 |
| • | Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second 2 |
| • | I would never see a good movie for the first time on television. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. 2 |
| • | The world isn't a sad place, it's just big. 2 |
| • | People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.' 2 |
| • | Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. 2 |
