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

Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

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

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

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