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
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.
ideas moral terrorism
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
ideas clear vague-ideas
One must confront vague ideas with clear images,
ideas fuzzy directors
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
ideas cinema pity
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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.
war men ideas
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
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.
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.