I remember that month of January in Tokyo - or rather I remember the images I filmed in that month of January in Tokyo. They have substituted themselves for my memory - they are my memory. I wonder how people remember things who don't film, don't photograph, don't tape? How has mankind managed to remember? I know - the Bible. The new Bible will be the eternal magnetic tape of a time that will have to re-read itself constantly just to know it existed.

Chris Marker commenting on his film Sans Soleil (1982)