Ray Bradbury on Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is such a bore.  Judas Priest, he puts me to sleep.  He is not creative. He doesn't know how to use the camera.  He's an amateur in the worst sense of the word.  A lovely amateur, I would maybe put up with, if he were in love with what he was doing.  But Godard is obviously bored with himself.  He has such second-rate, sophomoric, ideas.  Its like going to a boring Friends house.  You get a little lecture on Sartre and Camus, think "Oh, God give me a drink fast."

The way you judge a Godard film is how often you meet friends in the lobby during the film.  Well, he's an eight-candy bar man.  I go out in the Lobby eight times and I meet all my friends there buying popcorn. That's the giveaway...

Everyone goes because they're bullied into going. That's one hell of a way to go to films.  To hell with servicing directors. I don't want to go out of obligation to anyone.   I want to go because I want to have a good time.  That's the only reason to go to a film. I don't go for a social message.  I don't go to be made better.  To hell with that.