Jean-Luc Godard
I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.Collection: Men
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.Collection: Communication
Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.Collection: Mind
Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.Collection: Lying
All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.Collection: Thinking
Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real audience - a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other nknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their problems in big. Not in small.Collection: Real
We are all older and more tired.Collection: Tired
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.Collection: Photography
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.Collection: Errors
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.Collection: Art
There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.Collection: Light
This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.Collection: Perspective
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.Collection: Cinema
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.Collection: Speed
Photography is truth.Collection: Inspirational
I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.Collection: Thinking
There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.Collection: Two
You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.Collection: Landscape
When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.Collection: Land
In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.Collection: Europe
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.Collection: Interesting
Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.Collection: Games
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.Collection: Jesus
Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.Collection: Mean
What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.Collection: Feelings
Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.Collection: Mirrors
I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.Collection: Ordinary
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.Collection: Light
Movies will continue one way or another. Maybe on video. Even on video games. You have to look at it, if you have children, or if you are linked to children, because it's new for them. This has not disappeared; the look of a child who is discovering the world, whatever it is.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Age
When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.Collection: Light
I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one.Collection: Thinking
I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.Collection: Laughter
When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.Collection: Talking
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.Collection: Trying
To be immortal and then dieCollection: Immortal
I write and film history; I don't make it.Collection: Writing
The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared.Collection: Done
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.Collection: Thinking
Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.Collection: Successful
The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.Collection: Average
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.Collection: Names
You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.Collection: People
I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.Collection: Desire
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.Collection: Zero
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.Collection: Watches
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.Collection: Past
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?Collection: Photography
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.Collection: Cinema