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

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.

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

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

It’s hard for me to talk about love, ' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

I think every brand in the world has gone through ups and downs.

The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done.