Jean-Luc Godard Quotations

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.

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

To be immortal and then die

I make film to make time pass.