"Whatever else Breathless is, it’s a Valentine to two impossibly young, eminently watchable faces. They’re not especially beautiful, but the camera can’t stop looking at them. To put it another way, Breathless is an extended close-up of two people who will never get to know each other or themselves any better than the viewer does.""I’m going to outstare you. Bit it was more than just a staring contest between me and the camera. My relation to the camera, it had nothing to do with complicity to insolence, or boldness or defiance." — From The Journals of Jean Seberg