Serge Daney famous quotes

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

#Believe #Littles #Cinema

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

#Reality #Age #Encounters

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

#Tourism #Cliche #Spread

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

#Ignorance #Media #Share

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.
-- Serge Daney

#Cinema #Too Much

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

#Today #Culture #Cinema

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

#Thinking #Tools #Television

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

#Black #Faces #Actors

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

#Dream #Soldier #Enemy

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.