It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

You can always be quoted.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.