In Hollywood, yes. Jean-Luc Godard is talking to Buk:
Jon-Luc kept right on talking. He was being dark and playing
Genius. Maybe he was a Genius. I didn't want to get bitter about it.
But I had had Genius pushed at me all through school: Shakespeare,
Tolstoy, Ibsen, G.B. Shaw, Chekov, all those dullards. And worse,
Mark Twain, Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters, Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis,
it all just laid on you like a slab of cement, and you wanted to get
out and away, they were like heavy stupid parents insisting upon
regulations and ways that would make even the dead cringe.