New Wave Cinema Quotes

“The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don't see why no one's done it... The movie you'd make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“...it is one thing for experimentation to take place: it is another for it to acquire critical mass – or, to use a different metaphor, for ripples to become a wave.
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One sign was the emergence or re-emergence of an international audience that actually sought out artistically challenging films.”
― Geoffrey Nowell-smith, Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s