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

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.

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

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]

It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad guy.

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.