Quotes About Memory

A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's people you haven't seen in a while, there are people that have passed away, and there are people you owe phone calls to.

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

I had a neighbour who was a photographer, and he'd always say, 'I am going to shoot you' and I would always cry.

I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

I have a photographic memory.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

I own a Canon 20D, though I don't remember the last time I used it. Ever since the iPhone 4, I've been completely absorbed in taking photos from my mobile phone.

I am so used to seeing a blond in the mirror that I forget that for most of my life I was very dark. Old photos are still a bit of a shock.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.