Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews
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“Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.”
Source: Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews
Source: Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
“Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.”
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“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.”
“I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.”
“People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'”
“When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.”
“Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.”
“I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.”
“Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.”
“I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.”
“It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.”
“Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.”
“On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.”
“TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.”
“When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.”
“I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.”
“Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.”
“Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.”