143 Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

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

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

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

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.

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

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.