Reappraisal Quotes

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

I also held that view for about 50 years, but lately I have been rethinking it and now believe I was wrong.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

Let nothing prevent you from changing your previous decision if after consideration you feel that the previous decision was incorrect.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

'Raging Bull' was badly received at first. It took 10 years for it to be recognised.

To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you're sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back - it's a very humbling feeling.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

When 'Safe' came out, it was treated respectfully but kind of forgotten. Then, by the end of the '90s, it somehow made it onto all these best-of-the-decade lists.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it's a great opportunity to say, 'Hey, this is really good, but we can do it even better.'

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

I see things completely differently now.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?