Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

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 place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

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

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.