People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
We must study history to learn its lessons, absorb its spirit of possibility, extract and emulate its models of excellence and possibility and honor the moral obligation to remember. We must measure ourselves in the mirror of the best of our history and constantly ask ourselves how can we use the past as a foundation to inform, expand and enrich our present and future.
From Software believes all the things we have learned in the past titles can be best reflected in the future only by starting work on a new franchise or series. That's the philosophy behind us trying to make a decision about leaving the 'Dark Souls' franchise.
Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a photo as a way to go back to a memory if I ever needed to.
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.
Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.
Memories are doing funny things to us.
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.
I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways.
I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.
Growing up, even finding all those notes that you write in first grade to your future self of like what you want to be when you grow up - it was always music.
The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present.
