Jean-Luc Godard: Zitate auf Englisch
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
Variante: A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Cited in: Paul Bowden, Telling It Like It Is https://books.google.nl/books?id=w8_p1eGVj8gC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=%22Art+attracts+us+only+by+what+it+reveals+of+our+most+secret+self%22+%22jean+luc+godard%22&source=bl&ots=2zIpIhvB_1&sig=uImQSWu8ATehPk0hAhfck-ZowJc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwydLuqp_LAhVhDJoKHdrjACcQ6AEIUjAG#v=onepage&q=%22Art%20attracts%20us%20only%20by%20what%20it%20reveals%20of%20our%20most%20secret%20self%22%20%22jean%20luc%20godard%22&f=false, 2011, p. 182 <br class="br">Quelle: "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).
ibid. <br class="br">Cited in: passionriver.com http://www.passionriver.com/blog/previous/32, 12-3-2013
“To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.”
ibid. <br class="br">Cited in: David Brancaleone, The Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/issue-30-spring-2012-godard-is/the-interventions-of-jean-luc-godard-and-chris-marker/, 2012, closeupfilmcentre.com
“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”
Cited in: Tim Concannon, Praising Arizona http://www.blackmassmovies.com/docs/Praising%20Arizona.pdf, March 2013 <br class="br">Quelle: Los Angeles Free Press, March 15, 1968. Gene Youngblood
“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”
Cited in: Fayek S. Hourani, Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings https://books.google.nl/books?id=ASN8DVH2AgYC&pg=PA169&dq=%22The+truth+is+that+there+is+no+terror+untempered+by+some+great+moral+idea%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR3svWq5_LAhXDJg8KHY3vBpcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20truth%20is%20that%20there%20is%20no%20terror%20untempered%20by%20some%20great%20moral%20idea%22&f=false, 2012, p. 169 <br class="br">Quelle: "Strangers on a Train," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, March 10, 1952).
“Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.”
ibid. <br class="br">Cited in: Ideas, not plots, inspire Jean-Luc Godard http://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0803/03121.html, csmonitor.com, August 3, 1994
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
Cited in: Jerry White, Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville https://books.google.nl/books?id=QpXZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT136&dq=%22All+you+need+for+a+movie+is+a+gun+and+a+girl%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB-5vnrJ_LAhXCLQ8KHZ1yCTgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22All%20you%20need%20for%20a%20movie%20is%20a%20gun%20and%20a%20girl%22&f=false, 2013 <br class="br">Quelle: Journal entry, May 16, 1991.
Source:"Defence and Illustration of Classical Construction," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, Sept. 15, 1952). <br class="br">Cited in: Fayek S. Hourani, Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings https://books.google.nl/books?id=ASN8DVH2AgYC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22Beauty+is+composed+of+an+eternal,+invariable+element+whose+quantity+is+extremely+difficult+to+determine%22&source=bl&ots=JwrnY2eVbL&sig=1XbUReB25BMZsF5sXNTPqHqhwJU&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMjZS2rJ_LAhUqGZoKHfIWBvMQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=%22Beauty%20is%20composed%20of%20an%20eternal%2C%20invariable%20element%20whose%20quantity%20is%20extremely%20difficult%20to%20determine%22&f=false, 2012, p. 169
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960).
[variation] Cinema is truth at twenty-four frames a second.
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1967, repr. 1970).
from The Christian Science Monitor - August 3, 1994. David Sterritt
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).
