Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

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.

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

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

Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

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