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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the opposite.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Art is all about craftsmanship.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?
I'm a Born Liar (2003)