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
girl gun needs
All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun
men fire soldier
A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
looks television watches
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
photography invention
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
interesting documentaries fiction
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
photography color has-beens
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
world bigs
The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
inspirational photography photographer
Photography is truth.
movie girl gun
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
years cannes-film-festival people
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.
suicide be-or-not-to-be
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
cinema form turns
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
communication reality world
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
This is not a just image, this is just an image.