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He's a regular Tiresias, ol' JLG. From Filmmaker, Fall 1994:
GODARD: Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of [there] being a real audience – a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other unknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their own problems in big. Not in small. Because if it’s too small, you can’t . . . It was big, so it was evident. And in the beginning, there was not even talking. There was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There’s this desire to see something big.
HARTLEY: But collectively.
GODARD: Yes, collectively.
HARTLEY: The excitement is in the crowd.
GODARD: Yes, but in the movies it is different. You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone. But to be alone with other people, and not to forget yourself within yourself. And when there’s 100 people around you can’t really forget yourself. Now, this will disappear, obviously.
HARTLEY: That’s sad.
GODARD: Yes, it’s sad for us. But now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.
