Godard Movies Quotes & Sayings

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. — Jean-Luc Godard

Well, I would say that every time you buy a new blouse or some wrinkle cream to make you look good, go and buy a book right away. It's just as important to keep your mind beautiful, don't you think? — Karen Harrington

Meg looked at me with something resembling respect. "What did you do to them?"
"Nothing," I said. "Half the trick to being a god is knowing how to bluff. — Rick Riordan

Alphaville is the title of one of my favorite movies. Jean-Luc Godard. — Haruki Murakami

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become. — Kiefer Sutherland

A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.' — Paul Haggis

I love reform better than its modes. — Henry David Thoreau

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. — Ilana Mercer

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich. — Suzan-Lori Parks

Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable. — Steven Soderbergh

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. — Jean-Luc Godard

Masochism is a valuable job skill. — Chuck Palahniuk

The Doctor: You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everything I ever stood for. You let me down!
Clara: Then why are you helping me?
The Doctor: Why? Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference? — Steven Moffat

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller. — Federica Montseny

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms. — Quentin Tarantino

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. — Jean-Luc Godard

Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience. — Booboo Stewart

If a piece makes you look good and makes it easier to get dressed, it wins. — Solange Knowles

Whatever we are constantly thinking about becomes our stronghold. It doesn't matter what sort thought we have, it could be a bad or good, negative or positive thought that ultimately exalts itself by manifesting through our actions. — Euginia Herlihy

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not. — Jean-Luc Godard

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. — Michel De Montaigne

But the strength that remains, which is principally destructive, is the film's dialectical relationship to most of the other movies that we see, its capacity to make their most time-honored conventions seem tedious, shopworn, and unnecessary. This originality often seems to be driven by hatred and anger, emotions that are undervalued in more cowardly periods such as the present... — Jonathan Rosenbaum

My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I did 'I Am Legend.' My passion for acting came with my passion for movies. — Alice Braga

Movies are a world of Fragments. — Jean-Luc Godard