Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard

• I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
• 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.
• To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
• The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
• A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
• All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
• Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.