Jean-Luc Godard Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
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“What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.”
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“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
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“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.”
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“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
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“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
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“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”
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“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 to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.”
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“You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.”
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“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
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“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
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“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.”
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“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 possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!”
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“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
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“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”
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“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”
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“There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.”
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“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.”
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“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”
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“There is no such thing as intellectual property.”
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“People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.”
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“Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.”
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“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.”
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“Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.”
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“To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.”
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“First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.”
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“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 subject.”
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“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”
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“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”
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