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 More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this. Jean-Luc Godard technology two thinking This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective. Jean-Luc Godard cynical perspective world Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared. Jean-Luc Godard actors age directors The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change. Jean-Luc Godard projectors disappear cameras When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all. Jean-Luc Godard fronts light energy I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers. Jean-Luc Godard slapstick philosopher contradiction I think laughter comes because things are hardly working. Jean-Luc Godard laughter thinking I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really. Jean-Luc Godard labs different light When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by Newton, Einstein, and others: there is a correspondence between light and matter, and light is matter. And energy. Jean-Luc Godard light energy law The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way). Jean-Luc Godard hollywood stories men We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another. Jean-Luc Godard capacity losing way I write and film history; I don't make it. Jean-Luc Godard film-history film writing One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. Jean-Luc Godard filmmaker moral critics If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me. Jean-Luc Godard three feelings firsts We are all older and more tired. Jean-Luc Godard tired I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one. Jean-Luc Godard swiss two world I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France. Jean-Luc Godard provinces switzerland france I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes. Jean-Luc Godard purpose numbers looks There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market. Jean-Luc Godard pretending destiny problem If I'm speaking it means that in one way or another when I say, "I'm cold" it belongs to me: I'm cold. But just by saying this it becomes general. Jean-Luc Godard cold mean way
