Chris Marker Quotes

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.