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

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

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

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 partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.

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.

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