The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard More Quotes From Jean-Luc Godard When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself. Jean-Luc Godard forget-youforgetpeople 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 technologytwothinking This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective. Jean-Luc Godard cynicalperspectiveworld 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 actorsagedirectors The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change. Jean-Luc Godard projectorsdisappearcameras When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all. Jean-Luc Godard frontslightenergy I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers. Jean-Luc Godard slapstickphilosophercontradiction I think laughter comes because things are hardly working. Jean-Luc Godard laughterthinking 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 labsdifferentlight 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 lightenergylaw 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 hollywoodstoriesmen We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another. Jean-Luc Godard capacitylosingway I write and film history; I don't make it. Jean-Luc Godard film-historyfilmwriting One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. Jean-Luc Godard filmmakermoralcritics 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 threefeelingsfirsts 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 swisstwoworld I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France. Jean-Luc Godard provincesswitzerlandfrance I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes. Jean-Luc Godard purposenumberslooks There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market. Jean-Luc Godard pretendingdestinyproblem
