22 Quotes by Chris Marker

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?

Humour is the courtesy of despair.

And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself.