Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.... -Jean-Luc Godard

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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

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Jean-Luc Godard Quotes to Explore

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them....
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....
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order....
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world....
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 an...
To be or not to be. That's not really a question....
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either...
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second....
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas....
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means ...

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...
During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where ...
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....
I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...