Godard and the Globe.

A: ...I'm not against the text. I'm not against it, because the relationship between text and the image, it's the bible. It's like brother and sister, or parents and children, or grandparents and grandchildren. But the way it is used, mainly by the people of text, is a sort of tyranny. It's like an Asiatic despot, the dominance of the word.

Q: Isn't it the other way around, though? Over the past century, film, video, the image have come to dominate the text.
A: No, no, they say it has, but it hasn't, it hasn't. [Chuckles.] How charming that would be. There would be no newspapers.

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A: ...I like new technology because for a time, at the point of its invention, there are no rules. You have to find the right rules for yourself. But today the new technology, the rules are fixed already in the medium, if I may say so, so you have to be careful how you use it. The new little cameras, everyone says everyone can do his own movie now. But at the time the pencil was invented, its invention did not make obligatory that you can be a new Velazquez or Rembrandt. It is the same with the movies. It's not because you have a small camera and you can go everywhere, under the bed, in the pocket of your boy- or girlfriend, that you can make a Splendor in the Grass by [Elia] Kazan or Touch of Evil by [Orson] Welles, you see.

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Posted by dwhudson at January 15, 2005 8:42 AM