Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.

Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.

Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

There's always going to be a moment where it's out with the old, and in with the new. That's probably going to happen to me one day.

Change is good, but in the middle of it, it can be very sad.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.