Quotes - Jean-Luc Godard

I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and
an end, but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money.
I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
- Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth.
- Jean-Luc Godard

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.
- Jean-Luc Godard

The truth is that there is no terror
untempered by some great moral idea.
- Jean-Luc Godard

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
- Jean-Luc Godard