Jean-Luc Godard

"Film begins with D. W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami."

"In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this. But I cant see his pictures. I sit for perhaps twenty-five or thirty or fifty minutes and then I have to leave, because his pictures make me so nervous. I have the feeling the whole time that he wants to tell me things, but I dont understand what it is, and sometimes I have the feeling that hes bluffing, double-crossing me."

"Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film."

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

"Ive never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. Hes made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring."

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