Top 7 Serge Daney Quotes (2025 Update)

Serge Daney Quote: “A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.”

1. “A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.”

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

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3. “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

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

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

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6. “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.”

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7. “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

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