Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

Film in many ways is very literal.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

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.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Film is something that came later into my life.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.