' .the greatest living cinematic artist, the wisest, most transformative, most original agent provocateur at work in the fields of cinema? The short answer: sans doute. Godard is to his medium what Joyce, Stravinsky, Eliot, and Picasso were to theirs: rule-rewriting colossi after whom human expression would never be quite the same.'The Village Voice'It's possible to hate half or two-thirds of what Godard does - or find it incomprehensible - and still be shattered by his brilliance.' Pauline KaelGodard on Godard'I'm trying to change the world.''Photography is truth and cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.''I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie.

You can't kiss a movie.''All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.''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.''Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.''Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.''Cinema is quite simplay a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema.

Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career in the industry.'Giustificativo, centro internazionale promozione editoriale.