Memory Perception Quotes

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.

Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it's completely blank.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.