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
research form wanted
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.
space looks heartbeat
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.
zero doors names
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.
errors truth-is all-things
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
simple too-much needs
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images...
civilization greek age
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
art reflection reality
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
cinema
The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
style together body
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
want letters painter
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
ideas clear vague-ideas
One must confront vague ideas with clear images,
art together decay
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
sex walks
When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.
believe two numbers
Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.