Quotes from Jean-Luc Godard

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Photography is truth.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

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.

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner? Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema.

Don't ever promise to adore me forever. Let's keep the feeling that this love of ours is a love without tomorow.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.

One can enjoy existence, not life.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.