Latest Jean-Luc Godard Quotes from Interviews

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• Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Giving, Done, Give Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Two, Long, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Average, Income, Months

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Careers, Want, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ordinary, Income, Satisfied

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Thinking, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I never read Karl Marx.

  Jean-Luc Godard

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ideas, Cinema, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Cinema, Looks, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Cinema is movement, after all.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Cinema, Movement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Player, Tennis, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Talking, Yeats, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Names, Cinema, Heroic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Destiny, Problem, Pretending

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Numbers, Looks, Purpose

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Men, He Man, Middle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Desire, Switzerland, Vote

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Switzerland, France, Provinces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Two, World, Swiss

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We are all older and more tired.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Tired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Moral, Filmmaker, Critics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Writing, Film History, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Self, Done, Literature

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

• You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Grammar

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

• What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Feelings, Directors, Film

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com