Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form… There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
A film ingeniously directed does indeed give the impression of having been laid end to end, but a film ingeniously edited gives… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That’s why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“Take a drawing by Matisse, a simple curve of a leg or a shoulder. Is there a basis, at the beginning when… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share
“Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.” — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share
I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share
There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share