The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!

Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.