Quotes by Godard, Jean-Luc




Jean-Luc Godard.

"The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea."

Godard, Jean-Luc on fear    Share


"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

Godard, Jean-Luc on art    Share

"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."

Godard, Jean-Luc on style    Share

"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."

Godard, Jean-Luc on beauty    Share

"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."

Godard, Jean-Luc on cinema    Share

"The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't."

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