Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Serge Daney

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French critic Serge Daney.

Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Serge Daney was a French movie critic. He was a major figure of Cahiers du cinéma which he co-edited in the late 1970s. He also wrote extensively about films, television, and society in the newspaper Libération and founded the quarterly review Trafic shortly before his death. Highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work remains little known to English-speaking audiences, largely because it has not been consistently translated.

French - Critic | June 4, 1944 - June 12, 1992

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

Serge Daney

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

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 intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Serge Daney

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

Serge Daney

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

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 inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

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 ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.

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

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

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Serge Daney

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