Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.
To become immortal, and then to die.
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.
Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
There are no more simple images. . . The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.
The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.
The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.
To be immortal and then die
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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.
This is not a just image, this is just an image.
If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
Photography is truth.
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.
I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.
The tree or the road - the ones I know of, finally they are the only characters I know really. The human characters I don't know. So there is both something I know and something I don't know. And I put them together.