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.

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

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

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