Jean-Luc Godard: Film

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

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“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!”

Jean-Luc Godard

from The Christian Science Monitor - August 3, 1994. David Sterritt

Way , Understanding , Thinking , Training

“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).

Life , Art , Literature , Painting

“Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.”

Jean-Luc Godard

Cited in: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/16/art