When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down. — 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
Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
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
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. — 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
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
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
We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies… — 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
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
the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Movies will continue one way or another. Maybe on video. Even on video games. You have to look at it, if you… — 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
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
I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes… — 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
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or… — 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
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
