Jean-Luc Godard quote: "People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year."

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determ...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike pain...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and th...
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 a...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

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

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Je...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Every edit is a lie.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

A film ingeniously directed does indeed give the impression of having been laid end to end, but a fi...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Photography is truth.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
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 ki...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled togethe...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and th...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

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

The children of Marx & Coca-Cola.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of r...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directin...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I am trying to change the world.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I make film to make time pass.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belong...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema ap...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

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

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can&...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and th...
JEAN-LUC GODARD

I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my bud...
JEAN-LUC BILODEAU

I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out t...
JEAN-LUC BILODEAU

Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I'll try and make it back to Vancouver a bun...
JEAN-LUC BILODEAU

He seemed in OK spirits. Still, so much stuff not answered yet.
ERIC GODARD

It's awful. I can't imagine what it would be like.
ERIC GODARD

It?s awful. I can?t imagine what it would be like.
ERIC GODARD

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are...
LUC MONTAGNIER

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody...
LUC MONTAGNIER

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It wa...
LUC FERRARI

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor...
LUC FERRARI

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
LUC MONTAGNIER

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not reall...
LUC DARDENNE

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. ...
LUC BESSON

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some ef...
LUC MONTAGNIER

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produc...
LUC MONTAGNIER

He's not a good guy, he's a great man.
LUC LAVERDURE

He took his stick and drew a circle with about a 6-foot radius and said, 'Put it anywhere in there.'
LUC ROBITAILLE

This is something I had to do after seeing all the devastation. If I was out of hockey and nobody re...
LUC ROBITAILLE

I have mixed feelings about these long European stages. Unlike some of our rivals we had no problems...
LUC ALPHAND

It was a case of surviving. It was not really a stage suited to the strengths of the Mitsubishis. It...
LUC ALPHAND

We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finis...
LUC ALPHAND

Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of sc...
LUC ALPHAND

The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents.
LUC ALPHAND

It was a big advantage to be first on the road.
LUC ALPHAND

Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. The...
LUC ALPHAND

I knew I had a great chance to win. The team worked so hard on the development of our car and I thin...
LUC ALPHAND

From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De Villier...
LUC ALPHAND

I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The im...
LUC ALPHAND

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in...
LUC FERRARI

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know ...
LUC ROBITAILLE

I just don't like to see people suffer,
LUC ROBITAILLE

I guess he was tired of the day-in, day-out grind. It gets to the point where you have to decide whe...
LUC ROBITAILLE

I still really like it. I knew I had to do a lot to get ready for this season. I started skating in ...
LUC ROBITAILLE

We're a brand new line and we're just starting to learn each other, ... I think if we keep playing t...
LUC ROBITAILLE

I've been getting more and more ice time and more chances. Therefore, sooner or later, a puck is goi...
LUC ROBITAILLE

I think that I am a collaborative fascist. With Natalie it was different, she was only 11-years-old ...
LUC BESSON

Obviously at 11 she didn't smoke, she was against it. She was already responsible. She said: "I don'...
LUC BESSON

In my head, the fact that I have only two more films to make is pushing me. I say: "Oh my God, I've ...
LUC BESSON

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, ...
LUC BESSON

I love that because I work one hour per day. And I see the director at the end of the day and I just...
LUC BESSON

There are a few directors that I really loved who made like five, six great movies, but are still sh...
LUC BESSON

I'm disappointed for him that he has made such a clumsy start. He's inexperienced and got caught out...
LUC LONGLEY

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take prec...
LUC MONTAGNIER

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.
LUC MONTAGNIER

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will ...
LUC MONTAGNIER

We just battled all night and never quit. It was pure hard work. It was a very rewarding victory.
LUC ROBITAILLE

I think it was the right thing to do. We needed to get those people out of there and get them anothe...
LUC ROBITAILLE

Considering this progress, and in the general interest of the country, I ask farmers to lift the bar...
LUC GUYAU

Do we want to see the death of French farming? We absolutely have to support cattle breeding which i...
LUC GUYAU

It's good to be back, it seems we had a little correction.
LUC GIRARD

Oil prices are artificially high because of geopolitical premiums, particularly the crisis between t...
LUC GIRARD

The market reacted positively to the lower than expected inflation figures. That means inflation is ...
LUC GIRARD

That's the end of a correction, and people are flying back to the energy and mining sectors.
LUC GIRARD

There has been a sharp decline in oil prices recently, so people started to come back and pile into ...
LUC GIRARD

To proceed otherwise would result in confusion, duplication and a huge waste of estate resources.
LUC DESPINS

We'll have to look at it. It's too early to have an opinion.
LUC DESPINS

So we had like five screens and people loved it and sent their friends and then the Japanese called ...
LUC BESSON

I'm still wet... no, no... I want to produce. I produce about three or four films a year.
LUC BESSON

I promise I will do two more.
LUC BESSON

My first attempt at the Dakar Rally ended with a seat in a helicopter and I never wanted to be in th...
LUC ALPHAND

He's too proud a man but I know it did (hurt him physically),
LUC LAVOIE

For a man like this to tape him without his knowledge and use it this way is nothing short of betray...
LUC LAVOIE

It's a question of a good story and with a small documentary, you can reach many people. I think it ...
LUC JACQUET

I'd like to dedicate this statuette to all the children in the world who saw our movie.
LUC JACQUET

There is no chance right now of the farmers lifting their blockades. This was a fake negotiation. We...
LUC GUYAU

The member states have to really start working together, because 2006 will be a crucial year for ene...
LUC WERRING

We need to integrate our energy policy with our foreign policy. The danger of security of supplies f...
LUC WERRING

It's certainly something I'll cherish forever. It was an amazing night. Nights like this are always ...
LUC ROBITAILLE

I guess he was tired of the day-in, day-out grind,
LUC ROBITAILLE

A player always wants to stay in soccer, but he is an outcast for the rest of his life.
LUC MISSON

He gave his career to a court case to serve a cause and he sees that the transfer fees are still the...
LUC MISSON

We need you, Dennis, wherever you are. We've got your ruby red slippers here. Come home. And bring T...
LUC LONGLEY

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Action makes more fortune than caution.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise...
LUC DE CLAPIERS

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY

One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL

Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND

A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN

The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND

Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

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Jean-Luc Godard

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

Jean-Luc Godard

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