Jean-Luc Godard: Quotes about thinking

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

Jean-Luc Godard: 64 quotes6 likes

“Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it.
- Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“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

“[I think] the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.”

Jean-Luc Godard

from Los Angeles Free Press, March 22, 1968. Gene Youngblood