Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to be bankers or doctors nor lawyers or professors. That’s why they concentrated on something new: cinema. Jean-Luc Godard Read Quote
Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes’ work for the crew – and keep the three hours to myself for thought. Jean-Luc Godard Read Quote
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian. Jean-Luc Godard Read Quote
I write and film history; I don’t make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. Jean-Luc Godard Read Quote
The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened. Jean-Luc Godard Read Quote
The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie. Jean-Luc Godard Read Quote
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 Read Quote
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. Jean-Luc Godard Read Quote
