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 More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat. Jean-Luc Godard hollywood europe today 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 illustration perfect feelings 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 numbers two believe 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 together tree character 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 done literature self I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free. Jean-Luc Godard ifs knows 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-woman subjects stories There is no such thing as intellectual property. Jean-Luc Godard intellectual-property property intellectual 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 egypt hollywood sound 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 cigarette tables way There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas. Jean-Luc Godard fuzzy directors ideas One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. Jean-Luc Godard decay together art A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men. Jean-Luc Godard soldier fire men I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. Jean-Luc Godard painter want letters To be or not to be. That's not really a question. Jean-Luc Godard be-or-not-to-be suicide The world isn't a sad place, it's just big. Jean-Luc Godard bigs world 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-festival people years Photography is truth. Jean-Luc Godard photography photographer inspirational
