- Voice: Memorandum for a History of Cinema: 1902 - "Journey to the Moon". 1920 - "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari". 1924 - "Entr'acte". 1926 - "Battleship Potemkin". 1928 - "Un Chien Andalou". 1931 - "City Lights". Birth of Guy-Ernest Debord. 1951 - "Treatise of Venom and Eternity". 1952 - "The Anti-Concept". - "Howlings in Favour of Sade". Just as the projection was about to begin, Guy-Ernest Debord was supposed to step onto the stage and make a few introductory remarks. Had he done so, he would simply have said: 'There is no film. Cinema is dead. No more films are possible. If you wish, we can move on to a discussion.'
- Voice: Love is valid only in a pre-revolutionary period.
- Voice: The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations.
- Voice: A sizable commando of some thirty lettrists, all wearing the filthy uniform that is their only really original trademark, showed up at Cannes determined to provoke a scandal that would draw attention to themselves.
- Voice: A science of situations needs to be created, which will incorporate elements from psychology, statistics, urbanism, and ethics. These elements must be focused on a totally new goal: the conscious creation of situations.
- Voice: They'll be famous someday, you'll see! I will never accept the scandalous and scarcely credible fact that there is such a thing as a police force. Several cathedrals have been erected in memory of Serge Berna. Love is valid only in a pre-revolutionary period. I made this film while there was still time to talk about it. Jean-Isidore, in order to get out of that ephemeral crowd. On Place Gabriel-Pomerand when we've grown old. In the future all these little jokers will be studied in the high schools and colleges.
- Voice: The Paris police are equipped with 30,000 billy clubs.
- Voice: Once again, after all the untimely answers and the aging of youth, night falls from on high.
- Voice: Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.