Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

Film is so immersive.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.