« Every moment of our life presents the two aspects, it is actual and virtual, perception on the one side and recollection on the other... »
Gilles Deleuze, The time-image, 1985
« In the time of dominating media, who doesn't know how to represent nor to communicate its own story is a ghost individual. We're all heroes of a story; it's necessary to admit this at the risk of not existing. »
Patrick Plaisance, television producer, Libération, January 1992, quoted by Olivier Razac, in L’écran et le zoo, Denoël, 2002