Chris Marker Quotes

#1. I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

Chris Marker

#2. Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars. - Chris Marker

Zeina Abirached

#3. 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.

Susan Sontag

#4. The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place.

Henri Michaux

#5. I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

Chris Marker

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

Chris Marker

#7. One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

Jack McDevitt

#8. Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

Don DeLillo

#9. Have faith, hope, and charity, that's the way to live successfully.

Don Cornell

#10. Tribally speaking...

Bella Bloom

#11. Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.

Yahya Jammeh

#12. 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

Chris Marker

#13. He liked the fragility of those moments
suspended in time. Those memories
whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.

Chris Marker

#14. You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.

Roy Bean

#15. The chinese yunjae fans are very kind. They sent me and Yunho links to fanfictions. *giggles* They were 'fun' to read.

Jaejoong

#16. I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

Mark Twain

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

Chris Marker

#18. 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?

Chris Marker

#19. The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Jonathan Swift

#20. 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.

Chris Marker

#21. None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

Corbin Bernsen

#22. An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

Chris Marker

#23. I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

Warren Cuccurullo

#24. Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Chris Marker

#25. ...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had never ceased to obsess him, was the moment of his own death.

Chris Marker

#26. I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,

Chris Marker

#27. What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Chris Marker

#28. Bro, all you've got is a book. How do you plan to fight our parents? With literacy?

Brian K. Vaughan

#29. She accepts the ways of this visitor as a natural phenomenon; How he comes and goes, exists, talks, laughs with her, falls silent, listens to her, and then he vanishes.

Chris Marker

#30. We feel more emotion ... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.

Chris Marker

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

Chris Marker