People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.' Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. Jean-Luc Godard gambling movie beautiful Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second. Jean-Luc Godard twenties photography inspiring Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. Jean-Luc Godard inspiring inspirational reality Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Jean-Luc Godard reflection reality art He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. Jean-Luc Godard void inspirational watches 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 trying giving art A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. Jean-Luc Godard movie should-have order 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, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not. Jean-Luc Godard running ideas thinking In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato! Jean-Luc Godard atoms way thinking "Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love. Jean-Luc Godard hate 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 alive attention people Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. Jean-Luc Godard cinema moments ideas Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming? Jean-Luc Godard oscars video writing To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. Jean-Luc Godard enormous comic society-today If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time. Jean-Luc Godard heartbeat space looks 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 movie kissing thinking First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. Jean-Luc Godard greek age civilization I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. Jean-Luc Godard pity cinema ideas When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. Jean-Luc Godard breathless should should-have Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. Jean-Luc Godard men war peace
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