The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.
Jean-Luc GodardIf you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.
Jean-Luc GodardOne of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc GodardThe cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
Jean-Luc GodardI've always said that to make movies, to make images and sound, is possible by one way or another. And it has not to be ruled by the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Pharaohs from Hollywood or wherever. I have tried very hard to make even a small budget picture here. It always fails. Over a dozen times. And now I know why. It was only because I wanted to be in control of the money. To spend it the way I wanted.
Jean-Luc Godard