Flashback Technique Quotes

Normally, if I would read in a script that there's mostly flashbacks and mostly voiceover, I would run as far away as possible.

I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.

The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.