French new wave as alarm clock for an industry
- Interviewer: Are you a provocateur? I don't mean that as an insult.
- Jean-Luc Godard: But it is.
- Interviewer: No, you can provoke admiration or surprise as well as anger.
- Jean-Luc Godard: In that sense, sure, to provoke an event... but an agent provocateur, no.
- Interviewer: Exactly. For example, you like to startle people.
- Jean-luc Godard: Not really, but if people are half asleep, a loud noise will startle them, whereas if they were awake it wouldn't at all.
