Jean-Luc Godard

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something wrong with what he was saying.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.