"Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts." — Jacques Derrida

"Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts."

— Jacques Derrida

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64 Quotes by Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
There is nothing outside the text
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance,…
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive…
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or…
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something…
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that…
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on…
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to…
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading,…
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be…

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Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me. — Antonio Banderas
I am really not interested in the cinema. — Brigitte Bardot
I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't… — Brigitte Bardot
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema. — Emmanuelle Beart
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true… — Jacqueline Bisset
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience… — Orlando Bloom
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life. — Danny Boyle
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary… — Danny Boyle
I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists… — Danny Boyle
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next… — Mel Brooks
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and… — Sandra Bullock

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