Jean-Luc Godard Quotes - Page 2

Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

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

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

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.

Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.

I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

Movies are a world of Fragments.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.