Jean-Luc Godard, the innovative, the controversial filmmaker has passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 13th at the age of 91. As a person who has reviewed many Godard films and have been entertained by many of his films (yes, including the political and the very difficult to understand films), I want to pay my respect to Godard.
Here are photos I have taken throughout the years of some of the Godard movies I watched and a few of his memorable quotes.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
“Le cinéma n’est pas à l’abri du temps. Il est l’abri du temps.” (“Cinema is not immune to time. It is immune to time.”)
To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.
Through most of my career, I’ve made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
More or less, I am always saying, ‘Let’s do what has not been done.’
