Artist Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,

— 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…

— Jean-Luc Godard

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“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

Language is the house that man lives in.

— 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

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

— Jean-Luc Godard

We are all older and more tired.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

— Jean-Luc Godard