But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

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.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Art is seduction, not rape.

To the militant, identity is everything.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.