Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godardis a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 December 1930
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Jean-Luc Godard quotes about
world bigs
The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
photography color has-beens
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
photography invention
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
looks television watches
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
jesus believe fool
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.
immortal dies
To become immortal, and then to die.
immortal dies
To be immortal and then die
snipers roof aesthetic
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
pretty-woman stories subjects
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.
world fragments
Movies are a world of Fragments.
illustration perfect feelings
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.
film making-time time-passes
I make film to make time pass.
mirrors should
Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.
taken moving reality
the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.