Jean-Luc Godard Trying Quotations

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

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.