I prefer to work when there are people against whom I have to struggle. Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. Jean-Luc Godard men war peace What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. Jean-Luc Godard breathless immortal ambition All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. Jean-Luc Godard movie girl gun There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images. Jean-Luc Godard simple world needs To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated. Jean-Luc Godard style body together Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera. Jean-Luc Godard notebook cameras trying When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in. Jean-Luc Godard walks sex Give me more. Let's do what has not been done. Jean-Luc Godard give-me done giving You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see. Jean-Luc Godard grammar Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things. Jean-Luc Godard cinema body looks One must confront vague ideas with clear images. Jean-Luc Godard vague clear ideas Cinema is movement, after all. Jean-Luc Godard cinema movement the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera. Jean-Luc Godard taken reality moving I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money. Jean-Luc Godard little-money rich littles When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. Jean-Luc Godard photography soul faces Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. Jean-Luc Godard passion fashion beauty The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Jean-Luc Godard cinema film art Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary? Jean-Luc Godard language doubt reality The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. Jean-Luc Godard cinema desire world Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami. Jean-Luc Godard abba film ends
