Best Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard (Top 10)

  1. He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
  2. A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
  3. To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
  4. 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.
  5. What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.
  6. 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.
  7. Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
  8. When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
  9. Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
  10. I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

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