Serge Daney Quotes

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

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• You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Healthy

• Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • War

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Films
  • Scare
  • Spooky

• I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Play
  • Perception

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Single

• You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Feel
  • Confident

• I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • You
  • Never
  • Losing

• I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Excellence
  • Craft
  • Stubborn

• I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Liberal

• 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • War
  • Lost
  • Vietnam War

• We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Home
  • Door
  • Year

• Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

  

  Vijay
  • Film
  • Big
  • Parcel

• I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Running

• The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Country
  • Economics

• We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Situation
  • Ends
  • Response

• I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

  

  Wong Kar-wai
  • School
  • Film
  • Cinema

• Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Levels
  • Cinema

• A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Cinema