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 Jean-Luc Godard Quotation"I make film to make time pass." "I don't think you should FEEL about a movie. You should feel about a woman. You can't kiss a movie." "Tracking shots are a question of morality." [on Los Angeles] "It's a big garage." "There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas." "Every edit is a lie." "Up to now -- since shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution -- most movie makers have been assuming that they know how to make movies. Just like a bad writer doesn't ask himself if he's really capable of writing a novel -- he thinks he knows. If movie makers were building airplanes, there would be an accident every time one took off. But in the movies, these accidents are called Oscars." "What I want above all is to destroy the idea of culture. Culture is an alibi of imperialism. There is a Ministry of War. There is a Ministry of Culture. Therefore, culture is war." "I write essays in the form of novels, or novels in the form of essays. I'm still as much of a critic as I ever was during the time of 'Cahiers du Cinema.' The only difference is that instead of writing criticism, I now film it." "In a house there is the top floor and there is the cellar. The underground filmmakers live in the same house as Hollywood, but they work in the cellar. It's up to them if they like to live in the dark. The Hollywood filmmakers are more intelligent, because they have that sunny top floor." "A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." Movie Title: Band of Outsiders (1964) as Le narrateur: Le narrateur : Franz is wondering if the world is a dream or a dream the world. Le narrateur : A few clues for latecomers: Several weeks ago... A pile of money... An English class... A house by the river... A romantic young girl... Le narrateur : We now might open a parenthesis on Odile's, Franz's and Arthur's feelings... but it's all pretty clear. So we close our parenthesis and let the images speak. Le narrateur : What's that big building? asked Odile. The Louvre. The whitewash is great, she said. That guy deserves a medal. Le narrateur : Arthur said they'd wait for night to do the job, out of respect for second-rate thrillers. How do we kill all that time? asked Odile. Franz had read about an American who'd done the Louvre in nine minutes 45 seconds. They'd do better. [Running through the Louvre] Le narrateur : Arthur, Franz and Odile beat Jimmy Johnson by two seconds. Le narrateur : My story ends here like a dime novel. At a superb moment, when everything is going right. Our next episode, this time in Cinemascope and Technicolor: Odile and Franz in the tropics. Movie Title: 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967) as Narrator: Narrator : Where is the beginning? But what beginning? God created heaven and earth. But one should be able to put it better. To say that the limits of language, of my language, are those of the world, of my world, and that in speaking, I limit the world, I end it. And when mysterious, logical death abolishes those limits, there will be no question, no answer, just vagueness. Narrator : What is art? Form becoming style; but the style is the man; therefore art is the humanizing of forms. Narrator : There is increasing interaction between images and language. One might say that living in society today is almost like living in a vast comic strip. Narrator : How do you render events? How to say or show that at 4:10 p.m. that afternoon, Juliette and Marianne came to the garage where Juliette's husband works? Right way, wrong way - how can one say exactly what happened? Of course, there is Juliette, her husband, the garage. But are these the words and images to use? Are there no others? Am I talking too loud, looking too close? Narrator : Should I have talked about Juliette or the leaves, since it's impossible to do both at once? Let's say that both, on this October evening, trembled slightly. Narrator : Our thoughts are not the substance of reality, but its shadow. Narrator : Pax Americana: jumbo-sized brainwashing. Narrator : Objects exist, and if we pay them more attention than we do people, it is because they exist more than those people. Dead objects live on. Living people are often dead already. Narrator : If you can't afford LSD, try colour TV. |
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