Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard is French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. Explore interesting quotes on cinema.

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“To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.”

ibid. <br class="br">Cited in: David Brancaleone, The Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/issue-30-spring-2012-godard-is/the-interventions-of-jean-luc-godard-and-chris-marker/, 2012, closeupfilmcentre.com

“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”

Jean-Luc Godard

Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960).
[variation] Cinema is truth at twenty-four frames a second.

“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

Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).