Jean-Luc Godard Quotes - Page 2

French - Director Born: December 3, 1930

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Fly, Long, Want, Visa, Apply

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Jean-Luc Godard

I Am, Saying, Always, Done, More, Been

We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

Jean-Luc Godard

Sad, Nobody, Everyone, Phones, Film, Now

I prefer to work when there are people against whom I have to struggle.

Jean-Luc Godard

Work, Struggle, People, Against, Whom

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Woman, Think, You, Kiss, Feel, Movies

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

Jean-Luc Godard

Art, Together, See, Signs, Most, Decay

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Jean-Luc Godard

Money, Ideas, Cinema, American, Because

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Feeling, Perfect, Place, Shoot, Film

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

People, You, Rest, Three, Go, Film

I am trying to change the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

Change, I Am, Change The World, World

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

History, Cinema, Easy, See, Only, Up

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Good, History, Moral, Film, Make, Writer

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Science, Poetry, Think, You, Political

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

Jean-Luc Godard

Movies, Career, See, Living, Decent

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

Jean-Luc Godard

Journey, Movies, Never, Italy, Make

Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to be bankers or doctors nor lawyers or professors. That's why they concentrated on something new: cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema, New, Financial, American, Go

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