This is close: Godard on Godard, p. 181, cited in Robert B. Ray's The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy, p. 86: "Cinema, Truffaut said, is spectacle--Melies--and research--Lumiere. If I analyse myself today, I see that I have always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle." I don't have G on G here to check, but that's where I'd look. Yikes, just saw your address. Do you teach film at LSU-Shreveport? Patricia A. Suchy Department of Communication Studies Louisiana State University 136 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 [log in to unmask] > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:32:57 -0600 > From: JSVASSAR <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: FILM-PHILOSOPHY Digest - 25 Jan 2003 to 28 Jan 2003 (#2003-27 ) > > I need some bibliographical help. Can someone please refer me to the > citation for Jean-Luc Goddard's statement "The best way to criticize a movie > is to make another movie." I appreciate your assistance. > > John S. Vassar > Assistant Professor in Humanities > Louisiana State University -- Shreveport > One University Place > Shreveport, LA 71115 > (318) 797-5326