143 Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

People like to say, ‘What do you mean exactly?’ I would answer, ‘I mean, but not exactly.’

I don’t know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

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.

There is no point in having sharp images when you’ve fuzzy ideas.

Every edit is a lie.

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.

There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual.

Humane people don’t start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.