Tankian, Serj Filmography

• U B Da Judge
  2012, role: actor
• Artifact
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead Symphony
  2010, role: producer
• Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead Symphony
  2010, role: composer
• Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead Symphony
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• MTV Europe Music Awards 2007
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Screamers
  2006, role: miscellaneous crew
• Screamers
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Armenia: A Country Under Blockade
  2005, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• All We Are Saying
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Serj Tankian:

"It's all in his hands, he's the man,"

"Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace."

"People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really, ... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley."

"I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what lyrics might mean, and I'm like, 'You go! I never thought of that, but that works,' ... I think true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection - or, at best, skilled presenters."

"I like the dynamics of life, ... I like it when it rains, and suddenly the sun comes out, and I like it when it's really silent and then a loud booming noise comes through. Or vice-versa."

"We fought your wars with all our hearts"

"“As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. It’s such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, ‘Well, if this is a truth that I know about that’s not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?’”"

"Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice."

"We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change."

"Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive."

"Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest."

"I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult."

"If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company."

"I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization."

"It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically."

"Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced."

"I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days."

"I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka."

"The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth."

"I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician."