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
cinema truth
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
movies
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
film ends abba
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
movie order should-have
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
society-today comic enormous
To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
movie beautiful gambling
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
photography soul faces
When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.
intellectual intellectual-property property
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
movie girl gun
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
photography color has-beens
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
photography invention
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
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.