The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
The future is the result of what we do right now.
I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
In a hundred years the historian will understand me better.
All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.
Men live in history as never before …. we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.
There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.
I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.
But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
