History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
I never really did any disco dancing.
There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.
You can only understand the present age when it is past.
Maurice' was a groundbreaking film. People didn't feel that then but looking back everyone says that.
I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
When you look back on things, your version is always perfect.
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.
My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.
We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.
I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.
I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.
A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Fever' was good for how young we were, but for me it's kind of like a yearbook picture. You look at it like, 'Oh, man, that's the suit I was wearing?'
