Jean-Luc Godard

Quotes by 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.

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.

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

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

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

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

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.

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

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Every edit is a lie.

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.

I make film to make time pass.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.