“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, amazon.com
“When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, wh…”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That’s why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.com
“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean.”— Jean-Luc Godard, amazon.ca