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
errors truth-is all-things
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.
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.
cinema truth
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
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.
taken moving reality
the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
speed description century
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.
please-me people quoting
People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me
immortal dies
To be immortal and then die
film making-time time-passes
I make film to make time pass.