Jean Luc Godard Quotes

• Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

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• It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.

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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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• I make film to make time pass.

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• I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

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• Every edit is a lie.

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• You don’t make a movie, the movie makes you.

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• Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

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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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• To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.

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• The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

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• Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

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• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

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

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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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• Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

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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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Jean Luc Godard (19)

Birth:	3rd December, 1930
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris, France. He is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave". He registered for a certificate in anthropology at the University of Paris, but did not attend class. He directed and has written several films include: Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, A Married Woman, Alphaville, Made in U.S.A.,Weekend, Number Two, Passion, Hail Mary, Détective, New Wave, For Ever Mozart, In Praise of Love, and Goodbye to Language. In 2010, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award. He received Prix Jean Vigo award and Honorary César award (1987, 1998).

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