Jean-Luc Godard on Contempt (1963): “Moravia’s novel is a nice, vulgar one for a train journey, full of classical, old-fashioned sentiments in spite of the modernity of the situations. But it is with this kind of novel that one can often make the best films. I have stuck to the main theme, simply altering a few details, on the principle that something filmed is automatically different from something written, and therefore original. There was no need to make it different, to adapt it to the scree

In a 1964 interview, Jean-Luc Godard shares his thoughts on the French New Wave. | History of Cinema