Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

I like to let my racket do the talking.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

I do my talking on the field.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

A picture is a poem without words.

I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.

You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

Sports seemed an exciting medium to me.

In wrestling, sports entertainment, I get to fight in front of people; I get to wrestle in front of people; I get to entertain people sometimes four times a week - all around the country, all around the world.

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.

Yes, I'm dangerous. But only in my movies!

I like to let the ball do the talking.

Fans want to see a fight and be entertained.

This isn't a competitive sport. Wrestling is not the NFL or the NHL. It's not really sports. It's entertainment. And in order to be entertaining, you have to create emotion. And you can't create emotion by simply having a wrestling match.

I'd rather do my talking on the pitch.

People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.