If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

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.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.