Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence. Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard I don't like Paris or being in big cities. Jean-Luc Godard big-citiespariscities When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down. Jean-Luc Godard cinemawatcheslooks Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context. Jean-Luc Godard documentariesfictioninteresting To become immortal, and then to die. Jean-Luc Godard immortaldies Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. Jean-Luc Godard hollywoodpastyears The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description. Jean-Luc Godard descriptionspeedcentury I make film to make time pass. Jean-Luc Godard time-passesmaking-timefilm My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. Jean-Luc Godard snipersaestheticroof I would never see a good movie for the first time on television. Jean-Luc Godard good-movietelevisionfirsts All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun Jean-Luc Godard girlgunneeds If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality. Jean-Luc Godard wantrealityfiction Poetry is a game of loser-take-all. Jean-Luc Godard loserpoetrygames The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. Jean-Luc Godard terrorismmoralideas Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie. Jean-Luc Godard filmcuttinglying Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others. Jean-Luc Godard past People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me Jean-Luc Godard please-mequotingpeople When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them. Jean-Luc Godard i-ammeagetoday The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them. Jean-Luc Godard alonecinemateamworkart Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Jean-Luc Godard usselfsecretart I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely. Jean-Luc Godard stayeveryonetogetherwant
