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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end ... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
Jean-Luc Godard
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
Jean-Luc Godard
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Jean-Luc Godard
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
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
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!
Jean-Luc Godard
Every edit is a lie.
Jean-Luc Godard
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
[I think] 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
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
Jean-Luc Godard
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
Jean-Luc Godard
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
Jean-Luc Godard
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
Jean-Luc Godard
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
The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
Jean-Luc Godard
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.
Jean-Luc Godard
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.
Jean-Luc Godard
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