Quotes by

Jean-Luc Godard

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 doesnt. – Jean-Luc Godard

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

I dont think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You cant kiss a movie. – Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

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

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