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Jean-Luc Godard
16 quotes
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, 1 October 1952)
“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: "Strangers on a Train," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, 10 March 1952).
“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 (1930–2022) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source:"Defence and Illustration of Classical Construction," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, 15 September 1952)
“Fifty years after the October Revolution, the American industry rules cinema the world over. There is nothing much to add to this statement of fact. Except that on our own modest level we too should provoke two or three Vietnams in the bosom of the vast Hollywood-Cinecittá-Mosfilm-Pinewood-etc. empire, and, both economically and aesthetically, struggling on two fronts as it were, create cinemas which are national, free, brotherly, comradely and bonded in friendship.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology, pp. 618-618 (France, 1967)
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry, (16 May 1991)
“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 (1930–2022) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1967, repr. 1970)
“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 (1930–2022) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970)
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960)
“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: Los Angeles Free Press, 15 March 1968. Gene Youngblood
“[I think] 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 (1930–2022) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from Gene Youngblood Los Angeles Free Press (22 March 1968)
“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 (1930–2022) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from David Sterritt The Christian Science Monitor (3 August 1994)
“To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: David Brancaleone, The Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art, 2012, closeupfilmcentre.com
“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 (1930–2022) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited: passionriver.com (12 March 2013)
“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Ideas, not plots, inspire Jean-Luc Godard, Christian Science Monitor (3 August 1994)
“Film begins with D. W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his first wife Anna Karina, as quoted in "An Exile in Paradise" by Richard Brody, The New Yorker (20 November 2000)