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1930–2022 France
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, whose works include À bout de souffle, Une Femme est une femme, Vivre sa vie, Le Mépris, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, Week-end and many others.
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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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.
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.
To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.
Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.
the film Pierrot le Fou (1965)
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
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.
Film begins with D. W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!
[I think] the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
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.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end … but not necessarily in that order.
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