All Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
- The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. Great
- Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. Defending
- 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. Feel
- When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. Behind
- First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. Age
- To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema. Cinema
- I would never see a good movie for the first time on television. First Time
- The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second Cinema
- American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a… American
- Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. Agents
- In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not… American
- I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes… Absolutely
- We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But… Auteur
- The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you… Atomic
- People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure… Life
- To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. Comic
- One must confront vague ideas with clear images, Clear
- Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie, Cut
- To become immortal, and then to die. Become Immortal
- This is not a just image, this is just an image. Funny
- Movies are a world of Fragments. Fragments
- The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. Cinema
- Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world. All
- The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives… Art
- Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others. Americans