Jean-Luc Godard Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Years, Cannes Film Festival, People

  "Cinema is over". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Kissing, Thinking

• 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!

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Thinking, Atoms, Way

  "Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard" by David Sterritt, www.csmonitor.com. August 03, 1994.

• The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Cutting, Silent Films, Age

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Illustration, Perfect, Feelings

  "'Cinema Is Over'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2005.

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Feelings, Firsts, Three

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• I make film to make time pass.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Film, Making Time, Time Passes

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Feelings, Directors, Film

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

• Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Notebook, Trying, Cameras

  Jean Luc Godard (1967). “Le Petit soldat: screenplay”

• I write and film history; I don't make it.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Writing, Film History, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Cinema, Film

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Thinking, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

  "Predilections" by Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 06, 1989.

• All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Girl, Gun, Needs

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Phones, Ideas, Film

  "Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?'" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2011.

• Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Film, Ends, Abba

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Lying, Cutting, Film

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Light, Law, Energy

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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