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“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Movie #Order #Racist
“What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Ambition #Breathless #Immortal
“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Beautiful #Gambling #Cinema
“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

#Kissing #Thinking #Film
“It's not where you take things from â€” it's where you take them to.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Inspirational #Creativity #Brilliant
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Inspirational #Watches #Void
“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.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#People #Attention #Alive
“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.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Art #Giving #Trying
“You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Inspiring #Photography #Twenties
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Girl #Gun #Needs
“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Photography #Soul #Faces
“Photography is truth.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Inspirational #Photography #Photographer
“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!”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Thinking #Atoms #Way
“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Cinema
“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Suicide
“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Ideas #Cinema #Pity
“There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Ideas #Directors #Fuzzy
“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.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Style #Together #Body
“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.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Beauty #Fashion #Passion
“There is no such thing as intellectual property.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Intellectual #Intellectual Property #Property
“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.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Years #People #Festivals
“Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Errors #Truth Is
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Art #Cinema #Film
“Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Notebook #Trying #Cameras
“To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Cinema #Should #Spectacular
“First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now weâ€™re entering the Age of the Ass.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Civilization #Greek #Age
“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.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Pretty Woman #Stories #Subjects
“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Past #Years #Hollywood
“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Good Movie #Television #Firsts

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