143 Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

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

Photography is truth.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.