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
film ends abba
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
should-have should breathless
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
kissing thinking film
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
running thinking ideas
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.
people alive pay
Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.
hate
"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.
war men ideas
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
inspiring photography cinema
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
inspirational void watches
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
mean people answers
People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'
movie order should-have
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
art giving trying
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.
thinking way potatoes
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!