Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

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• He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Watches, Void

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• Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Reflection, Reality

  Jean Luc Godard, David Sterritt (1998). “Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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, Should Have

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Beautiful, Gambling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspiring, Photography, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Bruno Forestier". "Le petit soldat", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

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• People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Mean, People, Answers

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• Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Reality

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• 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 revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

  "Predilections" by Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 06, 1989.

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• "Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Hate

  "Alphaville". www.imdb.com. 1965.

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ideas, Cinema, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Girl, Gun

  "Breathless continues to shock and surprise 50 years on" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. Junuary 5, 2010.

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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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  Civilization, Greek, Age

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• When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Photography, Soul, Faces

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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!

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Thinking, Atoms, Way

  "Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard" by David Sterritt, www.csmonitor.com. August 03, 1994.

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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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  People, Attention, Alive

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• To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Society Today, Comic, Enormous

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• One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ideas, Clear, Vague

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• Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Peace, War, Men

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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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Notebook, Trying, Cameras

  Jean Luc Godard (1967). “Le Petit soldat: screenplay”

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• What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

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  Ambition, Breathless, Immortal

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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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Kissing, Thinking

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• The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Desire, Cinema, World

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• When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Should Have, Should, Breathless

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• If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Space, Looks, Heartbeat

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