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 More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard 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 When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well. Jean-Luc Godard yeats said talking I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested. Jean-Luc Godard tennis player trying I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know. Jean-Luc Godard income satisfied ordinary The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours. Jean-Luc Godard three two long I know that I am old, because even if I think I'm younger than everyone - but that's true - my way of hoping and continuing is that I am always in a younger position than the other one. Jean-Luc Godard continuing way thinking The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty. Jean-Luc Godard silent-films cutting age The way we have done pictures has to be disappeared. Jean-Luc Godard done way Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning. Jean-Luc Godard glad action laughing (Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough. Jean-Luc Godard landscape painting tvs There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive. Jean-Luc Godard kind two negative On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better. Jean-Luc Godard postcards landscape tvs TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. Jean-Luc Godard transmission painting tvs When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy. Jean-Luc Godard economy lessons trying Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. Jean-Luc Godard abstract-painting light needs Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real audience - a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other nknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their problems in big. Not in small. Jean-Luc Godard groups real people You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough. Jean-Luc Godard transmit landscape enough I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK. Jean-Luc Godard motion-pictures belief thinking Movies will continue one way or another. Maybe on video. Even on video games. You have to look at it, if you have children, or if you are linked to children, because it's new for them. This has not disappeared; the look of a child who is discovering the world, whatever it is. Jean-Luc Godard games children way Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well. Jean-Luc Godard wells dislike
