Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jean-luc Godard (French-born Swiss Film Director)

Jean-Luc Godard (b.1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or “New Wave”.

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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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-luc Godard

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Arts, Art, Artists

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Girls

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Fear

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

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

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-luc Godard
Topics: Writing

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Jean-luc Godard
Topics: One liners, Photography

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