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.