Frases de Jean-Luc Godard

“Lo que quiero sobre todo es destruir la idea de la cultura. La cultura es una coartada del imperialismo. Hay un Ministerio de Guerra. Hay un Ministerio de Cultura. Por lo tanto, la cultura es la guerra.”

“Las películas son un mundo de fragmentos.”

“La alegría no produce buenas historias.”

“El arte nos atrae solamente cuando revela en nosotros secretos.”

“El cine, como la pintura o la literatura, da y toma cosas de la vida, con la diferencia de que la literatura y la pintura existen como arte desde el comienzo; el cine no.”

“La fotografía es verdad. Y el cine es una verdad 24 veces por segundo.”

“Todo lo que se necesita en una película es un arma y una mujer.”

“Hago películas para hacer que el tiempo pase.”

“El estilo es el exterior del contenido y el contenido el interior del estilo, no pueden ir separados.”

“Las películas de Hollywood, en los últimos veinte o treinta años, son hechas principalmente por abogados o agentes.”

“Cada edición es una mentira.”

“El cine no es un arte que filma vida, es cine está entre el arte y la vida.”

“La belleza se compone de un elemento eterno, invariable de cantidad sea extremadamente difícil de determinar, y de un elemento relativo que puede estar relacionado con un período, un estilo, pasión.”

“No es posible tener imágenes nítidas cuando hay ideas difusas.”

“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)”

“To be immortal and then die”

“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.”

“The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.”

“Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”

“Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.”

“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal… and then die.”

“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”

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

“There is no such thing as intellectual property.”

“Every edit is a lie.”

“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”

“I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.”

“One can enjoy existence, not life.”

“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body—both go together, they can’t be separated.”

“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!”

“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.”