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

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

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

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.

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.

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

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