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
knows ifs
I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.
You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.
notebook trying cameras
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
beauty fashion passion
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.
intellectual intellectual-property property
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
ideas fuzzy directors
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
photography soul faces
When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.
reality doubt language
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?
desire world cinema
The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
ideas cinema pity
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
inspirational creativity creative
It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.
ambition breathless immortal
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.
movie beautiful gambling
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
society-today comic enormous
To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.