Jean-Luc Godard
Director
1930-12-03
Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard
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To be immortal and then die
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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
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To be immortal and then die
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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
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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.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
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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.
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The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
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Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.
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The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.
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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.
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times a second.
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
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