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.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard

Every edit is a lie.

Jean-Luc Godard

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

To me style is just 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.

Jean-Luc Godard

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Jean-Luc Godard

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Jean-Luc Godard

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

Jean-Luc Godard

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Jean-Luc Godard

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.

Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean-Luc Godard