I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining.… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
“...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments, only later do they make themselves known, from their scars.” — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
