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 question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

How boring just to be a body.