Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Jean-Luc Godard

Girl, Gun, Movie

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

Movies, Beautiful, Cinema

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

Movies, End, Beginning

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

Truth, Times, Second

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard

Money, American, Ideas

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

Human, Together, Body

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard

Art, Self, Secret

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

Beauty, Passion, Fashion

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.
Jean-Luc Godard

Every edit is a lie.
Jean-Luc Godard

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

Movies, Woman, Kiss

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

Feeling, Perfect, Place

I make film to make time pass.
Jean-Luc Godard

Time, Film, Pass

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard

Art, Together, Separate

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

Year, Days, Film

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Jean-Luc Godard

Great, Truth, Moral

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Nationality: French

Born: December 3, 1930

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