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
intellectual intellectual-property property
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
beauty fashion passion
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.
ideas fuzzy directors
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
ideas clear vague-ideas
One must confront vague ideas with clear images,
simple too-much needs
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images...
cinema
The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
civilization greek age
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
errors truth-is all-things
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
zero doors names
ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.
communication reality world
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
notebook trying cameras
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
suicide be-or-not-to-be
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
years cannes-film-festival people
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.
style together body
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.