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
movie girl gun
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
want letters painter
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
world bigs
The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
knows ifs
I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
photography color has-beens
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
photography invention
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
interesting documentaries fiction
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
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.
ideas phones film
We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
speed description century
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.
immortal dies
To become immortal, and then to die.
immortal dies
To be immortal and then die
space looks heartbeat
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.