Barthes, Roland Filmography

• A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
  2004, role: writer
• Mouvements du désir
  1994, role: writer
• El dedo en la llaga
  1985, role: writer
• Les soeurs Brontë
  1979, role: actor , character name: William Makepeace Thackeray
• Of Sport and Men
  1959, role: writer

Famous quotes by Roland Barthes:

"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."

"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."

"The photographic image... is a message without a code."

"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see."

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

"Literature is the question minus the answer."

"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

"To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other."

"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."

"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."

"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."

"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."

"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

"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!"

"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."

"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."

"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."

"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."

"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."