Jean-Luc Godard Quotes


The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.


Citations

Godard, Jean-Luc. Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews. Edited by David Sterritt, University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
  • Born: December 3, 1930
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Film Critic, Filmmaker, Actor

Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement, and is arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.