Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.
Godard, Jean-Luc. Quoted in "Jean-Luc Godard Will Not Attend Oscars," by Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times, 29 Oct. 2010.
At the time, the United States required that Poles and many others from many countries were required to first get a visa (permission to travel to the United States). To do this the prospective visitors had to stand in long lines at the U. S. Embassy and or Consulates where there was never enough staff. Congress wanted to check on all potential visitors to make sure they were not terrorist affiliated and they would return to Poland. At the same time Congress wanted to promote tourism to the United States. But they also didn’t want to spend money for staff (usually non Americans overseas to make the visa process reasonable or have a process where people could obtain visas via Internet or mail. This is a classic case of Congressional incompetence in copying with their own conflicting objectives.
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement, and is arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.
