Jean-Luc Godard
French film director, whose works include the films Alphaville, ? bout de souffle, Une Femme est une femme, Vivre sa vie, Bande ? part, Tout va bien and many more.
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"To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema."
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.
"I would never see a good movie for the first time on television."
"...the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera."
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.
"Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
"American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject."
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
"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!"
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.
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
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