Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
—Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Beauty
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
—Jean-luc Godard
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
—Jean-luc Godard
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.
—Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Writing
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
—Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Girls
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
—Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Artists, Art, Arts
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
—Jean-luc Godard
Topics: One liners, Photography
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
Topics: Style
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
—Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Fear
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- Sylvester Stallone American Actor
- Clint Eastwood American Film Director
- Steven Spielberg American Film Director
- Alfred Hitchcock British-born American Film Director
- Stanley Kubrick American Film Director
- Jean Cocteau French Poet, Artist
- Jacques Barzun American Cultural Historian
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