Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until he was 30 years old. So he took me to see silent pictures at MoMA when I was 5 or 6 years old.

The hardest I've ever laughed in a cinema was at 'Silent Movie' by Mel Brooks. I was 12-ish and I actually fell out of my seat. I saw it 10 years later hoping for the same hilarity but it didn't happen. I'm not sure if that's because of me or the film.

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.

I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.

My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.

Silver Jews was always a coolection of old friends. Uncoolection.

'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

'Silver Street' was a very happy time for me.

I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world.

When dressing a table take out your old pieces of silver, hand-me-down linens and old candelabras, it will make your meal that much more special.

I love my silver payals which I've been wearing for years now.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I'm very similar to the way I was when I was 5.

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.

When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.

My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.

I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.