Jean Luc Quotes

My fav band is Rush. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

PICARD: Did you read that book I gave you? (Wesley reacts, barely concealing a grimace as he recalls.)
WESLEY: Some of it.
PICARD: That's reassuring.
WESLEY: I just don't have much time.
PICARD: (re the book in his hand) There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. (Wesley glances over at Picard's book)
WESLEY: William James sure won't be on my Starfleet exams.
PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained to deal with technology, and the mechanics of piloting a starship.
WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy--
PICARD: It takes more than just that. Open your mind to the past... to history, art, philosophy. And then... (re: the stars) ...this will mean something.
(Wesley considers this, almost embarrassed as he realizes Picard does truly care about him.)
Then: PICARD (continuing) Just consider James' wisdom: "Philosophy... is not a technical matter... it is our sense of what life honestly means... our individual way of feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos."
(then) That's what I want for you.

From:
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Samaritan Snare" #40272-143
Written by Robert L. McCullough ~ Jean-Luc Picard

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I'll try and make it back to Vancouver a bunch. I love going back home for that. Everything turns orange. You start to get out of summer, start making your way into the winter, everyone is wearing jackets. Vancouver lights up in the fall, so I definitely go back there for a bit. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me ~ Jean-Luc Godard

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. ~ Jean-Luc Picard

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

One can enjoy existence, not life. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well. ~ Patrick Stewart

To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of beings. ~ Jean-Luc Marion

Art and theory of art, at one and the same time ; beauty and the secret of beauty ; cinema, and apologia for cinema. '
- Godard on Godard: Critical Writings ~ Jean-Luc Godard

But he's a vampire." - Heather
Fidelia shrugged. "Nobody's perfect. My second husband - he had six toes on one foot."
"This is a little more serious than that. Jean-Luc is literally dead half the time."
Fidelia nodded. "For most men, that would be an improvement. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

Ah, Jean-Luc...sometimes I think the only reason I keep coming here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours ~ Q

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

There are no more simple images ... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images ... ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Steele yanked on the pistol, but the front sight got snagged on the Frenchman's belt. Jean-Luc's right arm hit him in the
wrist, a painful bone-on-bone collision that wrenched the Five-seven out of his grip. Steele could make out Burrows's bodyguard
posted up ahead, faithfully guarding his boss's booth.


Jean-Luc shouted a warning while trying to dodge the server who seemed to appear out of nowhere. The bodyguard turned to his
left, reached into his jacket, and squared up to the threat. Steele's instincts told him that he was too far behind the eight-ball
to get the MP9 into action fast, so he improvised.


He launched a kick at Jean-Luc's ankle that would have made an NFL punter proud. His leg muscles pistoned his foot toward
its target like a hot rod on a quarter-mile track. The impact snapped the fleeing Frenchman's puny ankle, causing him to tumble
into the server.


Now. ~ Sean Parnell

You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose. ~ Jean-Luc Picard

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. ~ Jean-Luc Picard

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence ~ Jean-Luc Nancy

I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Don't ever promise to adore me forever. Let's keep the feeling that this love of ours is a love without tomorow. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Well, make up your mind. I don't have all night." Fidelia set her beer on the porch and removed a set of keys from her skirt pocket. She fumbled with the key, trying to release the trigger lock on her pistol.
"Don't do that," Heather warned her. "You've had too much to drink."
Fidelia snorted. "I'm not drunk. I'm in complete control." She tore off the trigger lock.
Bang! The gun fired, ripping into a nearby oak tree.
The women screamed. Jean-Luc winced.
A squirrel plummeted from the tree and landed in the yard with a thud.
Fidelia shrugged. "I meant to do that. Damned rodent's been gnawing on the house. And stealing all the nuts from our pecan tree."
Heather planted her hands on her hips. "Haven't I told you a million times to keep the locks on?"
Fidelia hung her head, looking properly remorseful. "I'll be more careful." She switched on the safety, then shot Jean-Luc a pointed look. "I know how to deal with a scumbag with nuts. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

This is not a good time, Miss Implant." Roman felt Jean-Luc jabbing him in the back with his walking stick. "Uh, Porky. No, I mean
" Damn, what the hell was her name? ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second. ~ Stanley Donen

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life. ~ Patrick Stewart

Yes," Bernarde quipped, "Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle 'till the sun turns us to ash. ~ Katerina Martinez

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the solace of edifying discourses that do nothing but pile on more testimony to its misery. ~ Jean-Luc Nancy

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident? ~ Jean-Luc Nancy

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

If Captain Jean-Luc Picard asked you to serve him aboard the starship Enterprise, you'd likely be happy to. You would recognise him as a great leader and a good man, and so you wouldn't have any problem following his orders. This is basically the relationship God wants with us - not slaves, not pets, not possessions, we would be co-workers and friends. ~ Lewis N. Roe

To be immortal and then die ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie, ~ Jean-Luc Godard

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

(Scene, not verbal quote)
He flung the door open…
And Jean-Luc popped through like a Whac-a-Mole. ~ Tonya Burrows

Q: The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did ... We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did.
Picard: When I realized the paradox.
Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. ~ Brannon Braga

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses. ~ Jean-Luc Marion

In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato! ~ Jean-Luc Godard

What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal ... and then die. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
...
ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Change nothing so that everything will be different ~ Jean-Luc Godard

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom? ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

This is not a just image, this is just an image. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

The movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. ~ George Duke

Photography is truth. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Without taking chances, you'll never be happy. ~ Sara Claridge

Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron)
I can't help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha)
Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks

At least you know about Jean-Luc and Heather, don't you."
"Nay. I was shuffled off to a remote island for four months. I believe that's what mortals do with their unwanted Christmas fruitcakes. ~ Lynsay Sands

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him? ~ Jean-Luc Godard

And that is why people think that computers don't have minds, and why people think that their brains are special, and different from computers. Because people can see the screen inside their head and they think there is someone in their head sitting there looking at the screen, like Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation sitting in his captain's seat looking at a big screen. And they think that this person is their special human mind, which is called a homunculus, which means a little man. And they think that computers don't have this homunculus.

But this homunculus is just another picture on the screen in their heads. And when the homunculus is on the screen in their heads (because the person is thinking about the homunculus) there is another bit of the brain watching the screen. And when the person thinks about this part of the brain (the bit that is watching the homunculus on the screen) they put this bit of the brain on the screen and there is another bit of the brain watching the screen. But the brain doesn't see this happen because it is like the eye flicking from one place to another and people are blind inside their heads when they do the changing from thinking about one thing to thinking about another. ~ Mark Haddon

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. ~ Haruki Murakami

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Take a drawing by Matisse, a simple curve of a leg or a shoulder. Is there a basis, at the beginning when he starts drawing his curve? There isn't. This is what I'm trying to say. And that's what comprises the originality of Max Ophuls, which he acquired a little bit at a time, because in Liebelei, in Letter from an Unknown Woman, in his American films, it's not there. It's a freedom that is earned and that is found, that isn't applied. On a basic level, it's neither better nor worse as a way of making a film. But there's something extremely original that we found so satisfying back in the day and that continues to satisfy me now … There's a kind of pure cinema of that era – you might even call it experimental – which has disappeared. There's no literature…not that there's no text or dialogue, but there's no pre-literature.

(Jean-Luc Godard in conversation with Marcel Ophuls, 2002) ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times! ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. ~ Werner Herzog

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

To become immortal, and then to die. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I try to make the best of everything. ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. ~ Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."
[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ] ~ Jim Jarmusch

There is no such thing as intellectual property. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

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

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. ~ Jean-Luc Godard