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

- Chris Marker

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

- Chris Marker

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

- Chris Marker

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain …

- Chris Marker

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

- Chris Marker

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the…

- Chris Marker

I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not…

- Chris Marker

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

- Chris Marker

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

- Chris Marker