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
movies
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
cinema truth
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
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.
hate
"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.
society-today comic enormous
To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
desire world cinema
The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
running thinking ideas
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.
kissing thinking film
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
movie beautiful gambling
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
ambition breathless immortal
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.
photography soul faces
When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.
ideas cinema pity
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
intellectual intellectual-property property
There is no such thing as intellectual property.