Quotes by Barthes, Roland

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. >>

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of s >>

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. >>

Quotations about Interviews

My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand an >>

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. >>

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze fr >>

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Barthes, Roland