It's almost as if [Kiarostami's] making films without a camera. If he were using the camera, he would not know what he was going to do – the camera would help him discover it. In the camera, the light is in front. In a projector, the light comes from behind. Whereas here, the light that is his intelligence comes before everything. It is not the light of the thing, like when Cézanne paints an apple or a glass. When Cézanne paints an apple, he's not saying I am painting this apple. He says nothing. He paints it. Then afterward, when he's showing it, he might say I painted an apple. So, now when I want to criticize a film I say, "It was made without a camera."

Godard, interviewed

Most directors, and three-quarters of the people who will receive prizes in Berlin, only pick up the camera to feel alive. They do not use it to see things that you cannot see without a camera.

Godard interviewed