Sans Soleil Quotes

Narrator He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?

Narrator But the more you watch Japanese television, the more you feel it's watching you.

Narrator If the images of the present don't change, then change the images of the past.

Narrator Rumor has it that every third world leader coined the same phrase the morning after independence: “Now the real problems start.”

Narrator All women have a built-in grain of indestructibility.

Narrator And when all the celebrations are over it remains only to pick up all the ornaments—all the accessories of the celebration—and by burning them, make a celebration.

Narrator Frankly, have you ever heard of anything stupider than to say to people as they teach in film schools, not to look at the camera?