Jean-Luc Godard

"Joshua Clover on Band of Outsiders"

"I would never see a good movie for the first time on television."

"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…"

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

"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."

"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, …"

"Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents."

"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 conce…"