Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
– Jean-Luc Godard
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
– Jean-Luc Godard
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.
– Jean-Luc Godard
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
– Jean-Luc Godard
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
– Jean-Luc Godard
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
– Jean-Luc Godard
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
– Jean-Luc Godard
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
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
– Jean-Luc Godard
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
– Jean-Luc Godard
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.
– Jean-Luc Godard
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
– Jean-Luc Godard