Spielberg wants "to dominate the world," Godard charged in 1995, "by
the fact of wanting to please before finding truth or knowledge,
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In
that, there is something very totalitarian."
-- Jean-Luc Godard, quoted in "Profiles: An Exile in
Paradise: How Jean-Luc Godard disappeared from the headlines and into
the movies" by Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11/20/2000,
page 65.
Psychoanalysis and cinema were born in the same year.
-- Jean-Luc Godard, quoted in "Profiles: An Exile in
Paradise: How Jean-Luc Godard disappeared from the headlines and into
the movies" by Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11/20/2000,
page 71.
We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad.
So we understood that there was necessarily something wrong with what
he was saying.
-- Jean-Luc Godard, quoted in "Profiles: An Exile in
Paradise: How Jean-Luc Godard disappeared from the headlines and into
the movies" by Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11/20/2000,
page 75.
Jean-Luc Godard, following his usual practice, faxed a handwritten note [as
a contribution to the catalog of an exhibition by Tacita Dean]: "The
so-called 'digital' is not a mere technical medium, but a medium of
thought. And when modern democracies turn technical thought into a separate
domain, those modern democracies incline towards totalitarianism."
-- Jean-Luc Godard. quoted in an article by Emily Eakin about Tacita Dean,
"Celluloid Hero," New Yorker, p. 54-64 (Oct 31, 2011).