In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

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.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.