A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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