Serge Daney Quotes

#1. It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

Zeljko Ivanek

#2. If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Serge Daney

#3. Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open ...

Serge Daney

#4. I like very confused people. The more confused, the more fun for me.

Cory Michael Smith

#5. The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.

Serge Daney

#6. A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch
an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still like us.

Serge Daney

#8. Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

Serge Daney

#9. Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Rudolf Carnap

#10. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.

Tina Fey

#11. The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Serge Daney

#12. We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team.

Dominic Raab

#13. From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

John Pople

#14. A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

Serge Daney

#15. In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Serge Daney

#16. Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Serge Daney

#17. Precision is not reality

Henri Matisse