Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

It's only when you push at the edges that you excel.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

I've been lucky enough to do a lot of very interesting things, and every time, I've been like, 'I want to put everything into this because I want to see how far I can go with it.'

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

I always look for a challenge. Maybe it's part of my mentality to create something special.

That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.

I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.