TOP 20 Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

TOP 20 Jean-Luc Godard Quotes.

“Photography is truth.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:00)

“Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:07)

“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 (00:14)

“Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:21)

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:28)

“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:35)

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:42)

“To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:49)

“Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (00:56)

“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:03)

“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 (01:10)

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:17)

“Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:24)

“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:31)

“Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:38)

“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:45)

“To be immortal and then die.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:52)

“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (01:59)

“People like to say, ‘What do you mean exactly?’ I would answer, ‘I mean, but not exactly.’”
— Jean-Luc Godard (02:06)

“First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.”
— Jean-Luc Godard (02:13)

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