When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well. Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. Jean-Luc Godard gamblingmoviebeautiful Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second. Jean-Luc Godard twentiesphotographyinspiring Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. Jean-Luc Godard inspiringinspirationalreality Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Jean-Luc Godard reflectionrealityart He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. Jean-Luc Godard voidinspirationalwatches People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.' Jean-Luc Godard answersmeanpeople 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 tryinggivingart A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. Jean-Luc Godard movieshould-haveorder 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 runningideasthinking 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 atomswaythinking "Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love. Jean-Luc Godard hate 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 aliveattentionpeople Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. Jean-Luc Godard cinemamomentsideas Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming? Jean-Luc Godard oscarsvideowriting To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. Jean-Luc Godard enormouscomicsociety-today If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time. Jean-Luc Godard heartbeatspacelooks 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 moviekissingthinking First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. Jean-Luc Godard greekagecivilization I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. Jean-Luc Godard pitycinemaideas When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. Jean-Luc Godard breathlessshouldshould-have
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