... after making For Ever Mozart, he contacted Otchakovsky-Laurent again to say that he now wanted to create a book of 'sentences' from that film and to do so the same for other works of his. The publisher prepared a manuscript of For Ever Mozart, and Godard removed all descriptions and stage directions, 'everything except what is said in the film'. Then he rearranged the spoken text in a process which Otchakovsky-Laurent described as 'an authentic work of versification'. The result did not resemble a published script; the sentences, broken into short, unpunctuated lines, without attribution to the characters, indeed resemble poetry. Godard expressed his satisfaction with the result, declaring, 'These are sounds and phrases which correspond to a type of diction, my own'. The genre under which the book is listed is also Godard's pown - 'phrases', that is, sentences, - although many of the book's phgrases, or sentences, were not his own: the book features a list of sixteen cited authors, including Georges Bernanos, Marguerite Duras, James Agee and André Bazin.

(from Richard Brody's admirable Everything is Cinema.)

Now isn't that beautiful: the idea of a voice that occupies every particular voice in a work of art? Of a narrative voice that even gathers up what is quoted. Phrases - to be capable of a book of sentences written by no one and by everyone.