Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godardis a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 December 1930
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
illustration perfect feelings
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.
mirrors should
Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.
mean silence
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)
inspirational inspiring reality
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
lying cutting film
Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,
reality want documentaries
If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.
immortal dies
To become immortal, and then to die.
memories america europe
Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
cinema should spectacular
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
mean thinking want
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.
ideas moral terrorism
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
games poetry loser
Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.
snipers roof aesthetic
My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
jesus believe fool
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.