I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.

Godard’s remark is a provocation aimed at cinephilia’s tendency to treat films as objects of romantic attachment. By insisting that one should not “feel about a film,” he draws a sharp line between aesthetic experience and embodied, reciprocal human intimacy (“You can’t kiss a movie”). The statement also reflects his broader skepticism toward sentimental identification and passive consumption: cinema can stimulate thought, desire, and critique, but it cannot substitute for lived relationships. Read this way, the quote is less anti-cinema than anti-idolatry—warning against confusing the intensity of spectatorship with the risks and responsibilities of real emotional life.