The best Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

The best Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 1930 - 13 September 2022) was a Franco-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967), and Goodbye to Language (2014).

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

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.

When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them.

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

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.

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 1

It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

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You haven't done Paris right until you've had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.

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What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

The Parisian has his amus*ments as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

William Cullen Bryant

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

Paris London Tokyo

When God feels bored, he opens a window and observes the boulevards of Paris.

Heinrich Heine

One of Paris' amenities is that you can be born here, live here, die here without anyone even noticing.

Honoré de Balzac - Le Père Goriot, 1834-1835

Paris means walking.

Victor Hugo

Paris is the only city in the world where starving oneself is still considered art.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

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Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

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Children & Childhood Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

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Art Photography Pictures

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

Theodor W. Adorno

Jewish communities are warning their members to avoid specific places for their own safety - today, here in Germany, almost 80 years after the Holocaust.

Robert Habeck - November 2023

Judaism Holocaust 2023

Israel was created exactly 70 years ago as a haven for refugees from the Holocaust. But the mistreatment of those suffering from today's atrocities is simply not in line with my Jewish values.

Natalie Portman - April 2018

Israel Holocaust

Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of having committed "50 Holocausts" while standing on German soil is not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie.

Yair Lapid (as Prime Minister of Israel) - August 2022

Mahmoud Abbas Holocaust

I am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. For us Germans in particular, any relativization of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable.

Olaf Scholz - August 2022

Mahmoud Abbas Holocaust

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Stephen Ambrose

The greatest danger for all of us begins with forgetting. With no longer remembering what we inflict upon one another when we tolerate antisemitism and racism in our midst.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - January 2021

Racism Holocaust Antisemitismus

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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