Film 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

Cinema is movement, after all.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Movies are a world of Fragments.

— 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

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

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

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

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

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

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

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes…

— 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…

— 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

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

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

Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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