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
cinema truth
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
cinema should spectacular
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
cinema form turns
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
cinema
The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
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.
inspiring photography cinema
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
movies
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.
past
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
ideas phones film
We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
past years agents
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
pretty-woman stories subjects
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
good-movie firsts television
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.