Jean-Luc Godard Zitate auf Englisch

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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Jean-Luc Godard

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Jean-Luc Godard

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

I make film to make time pass.

Jean-Luc Godard

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

Jean-Luc Godard

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Jean-Luc Godard

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

Jean-Luc Godard

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to be bankers or doctors nor lawyers or professors. That's why they concentrated on something new: cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

Jean-Luc Godard

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

Jean-Luc Godard

A film ingeniously directed does indeed give the impression of having been laid end to end, but a film ingeniously edited gives the impression of having suppressed all direction.

Jean-Luc Godard

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something wrong with what he was saying.

Jean-Luc Godard

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

I am trying to change the world.

Jean-Luc Godard