Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning. Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) Jean-Luc Godard silencemean Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat. Jean-Luc Godard hollywoodeuropetoday I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory. Jean-Luc Godard illustrationperfectfeelings You don't make a movie, the movie makes you. Jean-Luc Godard The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second. Jean-Luc Godard cinema Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus. Jean-Luc Godard numberstwobelieve 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. Jean-Luc Godard togethertreecharacter Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how. Jean-Luc Godard doneliteratureself I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free. Jean-Luc Godard ifsknows American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject. Jean-Luc Godard pretty-womansubjectsstories There is no such thing as intellectual property. Jean-Luc Godard intellectual-propertypropertyintellectual I've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to be ruled by the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaohs from Hollywood or wherever. I have tried very hard to make even a small budget picture here. It always fails. Over a dozen times. And now I know why. It was only because I wanted to be in control of the money. To spend it the way I wanted. Jean-Luc Godard egypthollywoodsound 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. Jean-Luc Godard cigarettetablesway There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas. Jean-Luc Godard fuzzydirectorsideas One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. Jean-Luc Godard decaytogetherart A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men. Jean-Luc Godard soldierfiremen I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. Jean-Luc Godard painterwantletters To be or not to be. That's not really a question. Jean-Luc Godard be-or-not-to-besuicide The world isn't a sad place, it's just big. Jean-Luc Godard bigsworld People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year. Jean-Luc Godard cannes-film-festivalpeopleyears
