Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard, The Image Of Filmography

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  2013, role: actor

Famous quotes by Jean-Luc Godard:

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"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."

"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."

"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."

"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."

"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."

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."

"Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second."

"Photography is truth."

"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."

"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."

"Every edit is a lie."

"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."

"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."

"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."

"You don't make a movie, the movie makes you."

"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."