Jean-Luc Godard Quotes - Page 5

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.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

Movies will continue one way or another. Maybe on video. Even on video games. You have to look at it, if you have children, or if you are linked to children, because it's new for them. This has not disappeared; the look of a child who is discovering the world, whatever it is.

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.

To be immortal and then die

I write and film history; I don't make it.

The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.

The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

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

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?