Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Jean-Luc Godard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 3, 1930

Topics

IdeasMomentsCinemaAbstractRather

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

John Barth

DecisionYouGetTrialCertain

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

Andrew Hudgins

CarSadDeathAngryParentsSister

You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.

Jeff Baena

TimeMomentFriendsYouKnowFirst

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

Jean Racine

EasyYouNothingDifficultBecomes

This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.

Stephen Frears

LearningJobPeopleBlackDoing

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Tony Benn

ChangeSocietyCapitalismValues

My fashion icons change regularly.

Roisin Murphy

ChangeFashionIconsRegularly

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

Mary Timony

SoundBelongThingsLikeMaybe

My mother is a beauty.

Mary-Louise Parker

BeautyMother

I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.

Christen Press

MeOpportunitiesCostNaturalScore

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

Brian Dietzen

HeartRespectAdviceHimOutTake

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Chuck Palahniuk

HappinessEatingAppleGardenBoring

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