"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."

“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.”

“Collection of 8 trailers for Jean-Luc Godard films viewable online”

“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”

“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.”

“Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.”

“Essay about "Hail, Mary" that's also an overview of Godard's films”