Jean-Luc Godard

“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.”

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

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

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

“Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.”

“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.”

“It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.”

“There are no new waves, only the ocean.”

“Style is the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated.”

“What is your greatest ambition in life? To become immortal... and then die.”

“A film is, or should be, more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.”

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

“To be or not to be. That is not the question. The question is how to be.”

“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”