Cinema Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I write and film history; I don't make it.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

— Jean-Luc Godard

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is movement, after all.

— Jean-Luc Godard

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I make film to make time pass.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

— 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…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

— Jean-Luc Godard

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

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

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

“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

Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

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

When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

“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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

— Jean-Luc Godard

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

— Jean-Luc Godard

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form… There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

— Jean-Luc Godard