Jim McBride, who directed the 1983 film, Breathless, became an important New American Filmmaker after just one film, David Holzman's Diary, which won First Prize at the 1968 Pesaro Film Festival (where Godard and Pasolini were judges), and went on to receive great critical acclaim in the U.S. and Britain. McBride's cinéma verité-style fiction film works on a confusion of reality and illusion, and a blending of screen identity with personal identity. Starting off from Godard's celebrated statement that cinema is truth, 24 times per second, David Holzman's Diary proceeds to disabuse both protagonist and viewer of any such notion. L. M. Kit Carson (who wrote the screenplay) is cast as David Holzman, a New York cinephile whose desire to record his life on film begins as an artistic quest but turns into obsession and, finally, personal disaster. As the film progresses, it becomes apparent that its subject, at first assumed to be Holzman, is the camera, and finally the process of filmmaking itself. Upon viewing the film, documentary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker is reported to have commented to McBride, “You've killed cinéma verité. No more truth movies.”