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.

Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous