Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

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This quote metaphorically characterizes cinema as a captivating and enchanting deception or illusion, suggesting that while movies are fictional and constructed, they possess a captivating beauty and allure.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

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.

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.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

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 to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an e... -Jean-Luc Godard

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

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This quote playfully challenges the conventional narrative structure, implying that the sequence of events in a story can be rearranged or presented in non-linear ways to create artistic intrigue or surprise.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-f... -Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

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