Jean-Luc Godard

Writer and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was one of the major directors and key inspirations for the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s. His films ignored trends of traditional Hollywood cinema and, instead, strove for natural realism by utilizing long takes, non-goal-oriented protagonists and ambiguous endings.

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"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."BrainyQuote: Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

"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. "BrainyQuote: Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun."BrainyQuote: Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."BrainyQuote: Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."BrainyQuote: Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

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