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Jean-Luc Godard

Read through the most famous quotes from Jean-Luc Godard




I make film to make time pass.


— Jean-Luc Godard


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


— Jean-Luc Godard


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


— Jean-Luc Godard


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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.


— Jean-Luc Godard


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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


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


— Jean-Luc Godard


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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.


— Jean-Luc Godard


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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.


— Jean-Luc Godard


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


— Jean-Luc Godard


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


— Jean-Luc Godard


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About Jean-Luc Godard

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Did you know about Jean-Luc Godard?

[citation needed] He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s. Several of his films express his political views. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema.

He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague or "New Wave". In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll Godard ranked third in the critics' top ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He has created "one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century.

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