Quotes from Jean-Luc Godard

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

I make film to make time pass.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

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.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.