Chris Marker Quotes

We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Time plays an important role. My physical body is taking shape in space, and I see that my ideas about how we influence space with our movement is really 'matter of fact.'

I have always said that my inspiration is society, the world we live in.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. And that didn't used to be the case. Sexuality is a social construction as much as anything else and I think the realities of sexuality don't always fit into the social constructions that we have, and we live in a goal-oriented time - on all fronts.