Talk:Jean-Luc Godard

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• [When he received a pie in the face at the Cannes film festival in 1985, he licked pie off of his cigar and said]:
  "C'est ce qui arrive quand le cinema muet rencontre le cinema a textes."
  "This is what happens when silent movies meet talking pictures."

• I write essays in the form of novels, or novels in the form of essays. I'm still as much of a critic as I ever was during the time of 'Cahiers du Cinema.' The only difference is that instead of writing criticism, I now film it.

• Movies are a world of Fragments.

• I make film to make time pass.

• It’s not where you take things from-it’s where you take them to.

• Up to now...since shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution...most movie makers have been assuming that they know how to make movies. Just like a bad writer doesn't ask himself if he's really capable of writing a novel...he thinks he knows. If movie makers were building airplanes, there would be an accident every time one took off. But in the movies, these accidents are called Oscars.

• I don't think you should feel about a movie. You should feel about a woman. You can't kiss a movie.

• A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

• Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

• There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

• Every edit is a lie.

• What I want above all is to destroy the idea of culture. Culture is an alibi of imperialism. There is a Ministry of War. There is a Ministry of Culture. Therefore, culture is war.

• [speaking at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival about filmmaker Michael Moore]:
  Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.[Godard had not actually seen Michael Moore's film at the time. - this is irrelevant, since he was commenting on his whole style of filmmaking]

• "To be or not to be. That's not really a question."

• "This is not a just image, this is just an image."

• "Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho." " I am a Marxist of the Groucho variety." This quote comes the May 1968 student revolution in France. See that article for details. [Which article is "that" article?? Please add a link to it.]

• "Cinema is the domain of rich white guys"

all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun (... a gun and a girl)

„All over the internet and in scholarly works, the phrase 'all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun' is attributed to Jean-Luc Godard, and that despite his insistence that 'c'est Griffith qui a dit ça, ce n'est pas moi' ('it was Griffith who said that, not me').“, the late Roland François Lack wrote in thecinetourist.net. He collected lot of material proving that D. W. Griffith said that in the early 1920s already. Godard only cited that sentence - sometimes more seriously, sometimes more ironiqually. May I delete it as originally coming from Godard ? Jameskrug (talk) 19:18, 22 August 2022 (UTC)