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
snipers roof aesthetic
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
ideas moral terrorism
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
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.
good-movie firsts television
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
sex walks
When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
cinema should spectacular
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
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.
research form wanted
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.
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.
memories america europe
Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
cinema form turns
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.