Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.
The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Movies are a world of Fragments.
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.
When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.
I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.
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.
I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.
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!
TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.
We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.
The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.