And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.