"If the cinema is a religion, Godard is at once its humblest acolyte and greatest saint."-J. Hoberman
"Just as Finnegans Wake, the artwork to which Histoire(s) du cinéma seems most comparable, situates itself at some theoretical stage after the end of the English language as we know it, Godard's magnum opus similarly projects itself into the future in order to ask, 'What was cinema?'"-Jonathan Rosenbaum