Quotes from Jean-Luc Godard

Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual

Change nothing so that everything will be different

The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don't see why no one's done it... The movie you'd make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.

To be immortal and then die.

I always feel that a man and a woman, who do not like the same films, will eventually divorce.

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

Car celui qui saute dans le vide n'a plus de comptes à rendre à ceux qui le regardent.

Il est facile de choisir les rideaux les plus jolis, les meubles les plus parfaits, de faire les seuls mouvements d'appareil possibles, si l'on sait d'avance que J'on est doué pour ça. De la part d'un artiste, trop bien se connaître, c'est un peu céder à la facilité. Ce qui est difficile, au contraire, c'est d'avancer en terre inconnue, de reconnaître le danger, de prendre des risques, d'avoir peur.

Mais puisque je ne peux pas m'arracher à l'objectivité qui m'écrase, ni à la subjectivité qui m'exile, puisqu'il ne m'est pas possible de m'élever jusqu'à l'être, ni de tomber dans le néant, il faut que j'écoute. Il faut que je regarde autour de moi plus que jamais… Le monde… Mon semblable… Mon frère… »

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Art and theory of art, at one and the same time ; beauty and the secret of beauty ; cinema, and apologia for cinema. ' - Godard on Godard: Critical Writings

We're born in the museum, it's our homeland after all...

Listen to me, normal one! We see a truth that you no longer see. A truth that says the essence of man is love and faith, courage and tenderness, generosity and sacrifice.

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

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

Living, it can be sad too.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

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

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.