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.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.