Q: [Godard's longtime cinematographer] Raoul Coutard has said there are only two subjects in your films: death and the impossibility of love. I would argue for a third, the cinema itself.

A: In the beginning, it was for the cinema itself. And the cinema itself made us – my ancient comrades of the New Wave and me – made us aware, little by little, of death, life, all of everything.

Godard, interviewed