Top 100 Jean Luc Quotes
#1. At least you know about Jean-Luc and Heather, don't you."
"Nay. I was shuffled off to a remote island for four months. I believe that's what mortals do with their unwanted Christmas fruitcakes.
Lynsay Sands
#2. 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
#3. I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.
Stanley Clarke
#4. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
Patrick Stewart
#5. Something not from earth," Jean Luc said. The setup was too perfect. Misha looked at me, and I sighed, dreading what he would be unable to stop himself from saying next. "Live long and prosper.
A.E. Jones
#6. Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron)
I can't help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha)
Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. This is not a good time, Miss Implant." Roman felt Jean-Luc jabbing him in the back with his walking stick. "Uh, Porky. No, I mean
" Damn, what the hell was her name?
Kerrelyn Sparks
#8. Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
Werner Herzog
#9. Ah, Jean-Luc...sometimes I think the only reason I keep coming here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours
Q
#10. Yes," Bernarde quipped, "Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle 'till the sun turns us to ash.
Katerina Martinez
#11. 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
#12. Alphaville is the title of one of my favorite movies. Jean-Luc Godard.
Haruki Murakami
#13. A breeze wafted over her face, and she realized she was in the parking lot next to Jean-Luc's BMW. She must have
Kerrelyn Sparks
#14. Jean-Luc glanced at the coach. "Who is that man? What is that machine?"
"It's a dunking booth."
"Ah, I understand." Jean-Luc nodded. "If he dose not drown, then he is a witch"
"No, he's just a creep. It's a game.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#15. At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.
George Duke
#16. But he's a vampire." - Heather
Fidelia shrugged. "Nobody's perfect. My second husband - he had six toes on one foot."
"This is a little more serious than that. Jean-Luc is literally dead half the time."
Fidelia nodded. "For most men, that would be an improvement.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#17. Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
Stanley Donen
#18. What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal ... and then die.
Jean-Luc Godard
#19. When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
Jean-Luc Godard
#22. Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
Jean-Luc Godard
#23. To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
Jean-Luc Godard
#25. Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Jean-Luc Godard
#26. When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
Jean-Luc Godard
#27. Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
Jean-Luc Godard
#28. One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.
Jean-Luc Godard
#29. Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard
#30. 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
#32. Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
Jean-Luc Godard
#34. 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
#35. I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#36. Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
Jean-Luc Godard
#37. If you can't confuse them with the truth, bedazzle them with bullshit.
Jean-Luc Roy
#38. Good bones of Bonesville," Sherlock Bones said. "If you know what you fear, you'll fear it less.
Jean-Luc Fromental
#39. I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.
Jean-Luc Godard
#41. 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
#42. There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.
Jean-Luc Nancy
#43. My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#44. There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard
#45. Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
Jean-Luc Godard
#46. I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
Jean-Andre De Luc
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.
Jean-Luc Godard
#52. 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
#53. L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#54. 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
#57. Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,
Jean-Luc Godard
#58. Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.
Jean-Luc Godard
#59. 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
#60. He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Jean-Luc Godard
#61. 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
#63. Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?
Jean-Luc Nancy
#64. I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#65. When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
Jean-Luc Godard
#68. 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
#69. Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?
Jean-Luc Godard
#70. 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
#71. It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
Patrick Stewart
#72. The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
Jean-Luc Godard
#73. I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#75. 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
#76. A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard
#78. Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
Jean-Luc Godard
#79. Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
Jean-Luc Godard
#80. Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.
Jean-Luc Godard
#82. I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
Jean-Luc Godard
#83. First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass.
Jean-Luc Godard
#85. Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
Jean-Luc Godard
#86. According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled we know not how, and mankind are wholly unacquainted with their origin.
Jean-Andre De Luc
#88. 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
#92. My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#94. 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
#96. Without taking chances, you'll never be happy.
Sara Claridge
#97. Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard
#98. 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
#100. The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Jean-Luc Godard
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