A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

- Serge Daney

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

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 i…

- Serge Daney

According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than e…

- Serge Daney

Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertit…

- Serge Daney

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

- Serge Daney

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

- Serge Daney

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 ig…

- Serge Daney

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

- Serge Daney