Super-Cannes Quotes

“Sooner or later, all games become serious.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“Idealists can be quite a problem when they get disgusted with themselves.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“I love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he’d had a shower”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales executives tucked into their platters of fruits de mer, but was only fifty yards deep. For a fortnight the Croisette and its grand hotels willingly became a facade, the largest stage set in the world. Without realizing it, the crowds under the palm trees were extras recruited to play their traditional roles. As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their limos, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at the Palais, a full-scale cultural Nuremberg furnished with film clips of the atrocities they had helped to commit.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their psychopathies can set them free...”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“Nothing about sex ever shocks women. At least, men’s kind of sex.”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“Homo sapiens is a reformed hunter-killer of depraved appetites”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

“FIRST PERSON I met at Eden-Olympia was a psychiatrist,”
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes