Most shots in most films only take concrete shape as the result of a series of deductions which both programs them and progressively diminishes opportunities for the visual along the way... The scene is deduced from its function in the script; the shot is deduced from its function in the scene; the composition is deduced fom its function in the shot; and the attack is more often than not deduced from the readability of the composition.
- Alain Bergala on Godard