Jean-Luc Godard citations (50 citations)

Cited in: Paul Bowden, Telling It Like It Is https://books.google.nl/books?id=w8_p1eGVj8gC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=%22Art+attracts+us+only+by+what+it+reveals+of+our+most+secret+self%22+%22jean+luc+godard%22&source=bl&ots=2zIpIhvB_1&sig=uImQSWu8ATehPk0hAhfck-ZowJc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwydLuqp_LAhVhDJoKHdrjACcQ6AEIUjAG#v=onepage&q=%22Art%20attracts%20us%20only%20by%20what%20it%20reveals%20of%20our%20most%20secret%20self%22%20%22jean%20luc%20godard%22&f=false, 2011, p. 182
Source: "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).

“American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.”

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Cited in: passionriver.com http://www.passionriver.com/blog/previous/32, 12-3-2013

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

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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

“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”

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Cited in: Tim Concannon, Praising Arizona http://www.blackmassmovies.com/docs/Praising%20Arizona.pdf, March 2013
Source: Los Angeles Free Press, March 15, 1968. Gene Youngblood

“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”

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Cited in: Fayek S. Hourani, Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings https://books.google.nl/books?id=ASN8DVH2AgYC&pg=PA169&dq=%22The+truth+is+that+there+is+no+terror+untempered+by+some+great+moral+idea%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR3svWq5_LAhXDJg8KHY3vBpcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20truth%20is%20that%20there%20is%20no%20terror%20untempered%20by%20some%20great%20moral%20idea%22&f=false, 2012, p. 169
Source: "Strangers on a Train," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, March 10, 1952).

“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”

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Cited in: Ideas, not plots, inspire Jean-Luc Godard http://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0803/03121.html, csmonitor.com, August 3, 1994

“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”

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Cited in: Jerry White, Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville https://books.google.nl/books?id=QpXZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT136&dq=%22All+you+need+for+a+movie+is+a+gun+and+a+girl%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB-5vnrJ_LAhXCLQ8KHZ1yCTgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22All%20you%20need%20for%20a%20movie%20is%20a%20gun%20and%20a%20girl%22&f=false, 2013
Source: Journal entry, May 16, 1991.

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

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Source:"Defence and Illustration of Classical Construction," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, Sept. 15, 1952).
Cited in: Fayek S. Hourani, Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings https://books.google.nl/books?id=ASN8DVH2AgYC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22Beauty+is+composed+of+an+eternal,+invariable+element+whose+quantity+is+extremely+difficult+to+determine%22&source=bl&ots=JwrnY2eVbL&sig=1XbUReB25BMZsF5sXNTPqHqhwJU&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMjZS2rJ_LAhUqGZoKHfIWBvMQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=%22Beauty%20is%20composed%20of%20an%20eternal%2C%20invariable%20element%20whose%20quantity%20is%20extremely%20difficult%20to%20determine%22&f=false, 2012, p. 169