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Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, 100 Quotes About Suicide
Tagged: Suicide, Suicidal
“I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free, or if I'm not free because I'm unhappy.”
— Patricia Franchini, Breathless(1960)
Tagged: Happiness, being unhappy, Freedom, Unhappy, Life
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That’s why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, La Nouvelle Vague
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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.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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“Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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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.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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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.”
— Jean-Luc Godard, Godard On Godard(A Da Capo paperback)
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