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

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

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

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.

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.

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.