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Jean Luc Godard Inspirational Quotes (92)

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Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.
Jean-Luc Godard
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When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
Jean-Luc Godard
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I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.
Jean-Luc Godard
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I write and film history I don't make it.
Jean-Luc Godard
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
Jean-Luc Godard
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If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.
Jean-Luc Godard
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When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.
Jean-Luc Godard
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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 doesn't.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
Jean-Luc Godard
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There is no such thing as intellectual property.
Jean-Luc Godard
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I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.
Jean-Luc Godard
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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.
Jean-Luc Godard
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The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.
Jean-Luc Godard
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I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.
Jean-Luc Godard
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the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
Jean-Luc Godard
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When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
Jean-Luc Godard
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When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.
Jean-Luc Godard
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When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.
Jean-Luc Godard
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