Quote by Jean-Luc Godard
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote

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

Category:
movies
Read Quote

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

Category:
Money
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Film / Filmmaking / Movies
category

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. – Robert Bresson

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you cant teach old fleas new dogs. – Federico Fellini

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. – Robert Bresson

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. – Frank Capra

Random Quotes

Or those war-clouds that gather on the horizon, dragon-crested, tongued with fire;—how is their barbed strength bridled? what bits are these they are champing with their vaporous lips… – John Ruskin, “The Cloud-Balancings”

Category:
Sky & Clouds

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. – Catharine Beecher

Category:
Intelligence

We are brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. – Bible

Category:
Birth

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. – Matthew Simpson

Category:
Age