Serge Daney Quotes

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

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

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

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

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

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.