Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

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

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

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

Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time.

Never forget: Death was Satan’s greatest victory.

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.