Top 100 Godard's Quotes

#1. I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Godard's Quotes #8923
#2. To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

Quentin Tarantino

Godard's Quotes #68861
#3. What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal ... and then die.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #76467
#4. When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #96949
#5. I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

Abbas Kiarostami

Godard's Quotes #104754
#6. One can enjoy existence, not life.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #121651
#7. All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #126570
#8. Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #156771
#9. To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #160774
#10. First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she had a vision of herself thirty years in the future: a spinster librarian in an apartment full of cats named after New Wave directors. (Godard, leave Rivette's chew toy alone - )

Jess Walter

Godard's Quotes #164995
#11. Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #184679
#12. Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #194584
#13. When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #196268
#14. What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Godard's Quotes #206803
#15. Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #228889
#16. One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #265301
#17. Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #269760
#18. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #326264
#19. A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.'

Paul Haggis

Godard's Quotes #336329
#20. There is no such thing as intellectual property.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #349555
#21. Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #358230
#22. Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #364871
#23. There are no more simple images ... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images ...

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #369064
#24. Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #396080
#25. I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #413096
#26. Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #424180
#27. If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #464294
#28. There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #547076
#29. Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #564172
#30. Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

Brian De Palma

Godard's Quotes #589858
#31. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #613952
#32. I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

Julie Delpy

Godard's Quotes #637927
#33. In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #650042
#34. Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Werner Herzog

Godard's Quotes #653281
#35. I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #657253
#36. You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #673448
#37. The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #681907
#38. Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #695038
#39. Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #754576
#40. The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #801260
#41. Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #801512
#42. Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #808453
#43. People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #848022
#44. He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #889489
#45. Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #906062
#46. To be immortal and then die

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #912551
#47. When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #957228
#48. The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #963753
#49. To become immortal, and then to die.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #971896
#50. You knew what was playing at Film Forum, and you corrected anyone who lumped Godard and Truffaut together.

Stephanie Danler

Godard's Quotes #977457
#51. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #981623
#52. Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

Haruki Murakami

Godard's Quotes #982524
#53. Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #989033
#54. I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #998567
#55. The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1019045
#56. Photography is truth.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1053031
#57. Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1063481
#58. I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

Godard's Quotes #1085213
#59. A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1104180
#60. My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1104718
#61. Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1110667
#62. Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1118319
#63. Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1138007
#64. To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1145647
#65. I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1155452
#66. First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1157301
#67. Every edit is a lie.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1180611
#68. Alphaville is the title of one of my favorite movies. Jean-Luc Godard.

Haruki Murakami

Godard's Quotes #1213430
#69. Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1224292
#70. I make film to make time pass.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1270846
#71. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1280382
#72. This is not a just image, this is just an image.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1296493
#73. All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1308217
#74. All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1341933
#75. Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1343413
#76. Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1365793
#77. Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1421299
#78. The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1427907
#79. Movies are a world of Fragments.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1436573
#80. The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1447078
#81. It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1477953
#82. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1479059
#83. Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1488644
#84. A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1501894
#85. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1558164
#86. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1580352
#87. One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1589871
#88. I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people.

Mike Mills

Godard's Quotes #1594633
#89. Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1629744
#90. When you photograph a face ... you photograph the soul behind it.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1660995
#91. Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

Stanley Donen

Godard's Quotes #1663321
#92. Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

Steven Soderbergh

Godard's Quotes #1664957
#93. One must confront vague ideas with clear images,

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1683459
#94. I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1693249
#95. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1717635
#96. I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1746299
#97. Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1756696
#98. People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1763404
#99. I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1786882
#100. 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Godard's Quotes #1807569

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