Jean-Luc Godard Quotes About Film
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I write and film history; I don't make it.
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All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun
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What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.
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Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
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I make film to make time pass.
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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.
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Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.
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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.
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When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy.
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If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.
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People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
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Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
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The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
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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.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
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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.
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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!
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I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
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I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.
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