Quotes About Nostalgia

I remember seeing this picture my mother had of Dick Clark. It didn't inspire me to be an actor or anything, but when I did 'American Dreams' with Dick Clark, my mother came out, and she showed him this picture of them that was taken 35 years earlier. It was great.

'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all that good stuff.

I'm very inspired by past music.

I would love to work on another installment of 'Gilmore Girls.'

I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

My institute days were the most enriching days of my life.

The big picture, for me, having grown up with 'Top Gear,' is that it was loved. We need to get that back. It needs to be an institution.

Yeah, uh, no, I play the cello. I played it, when, a lot when I was younger and it's one of those such a beautiful instrument. It's kind of the few things I've kept up.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

Sometimes I'll be in an elevator and I'll hear a corny instrumental version of 'Light My Fire.'

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

I love the camera and I guess it's because it's been an integral part of my childhood.

Well, I'm just a really sentimental person, and I just get leveled by things so easily, like from films, to personal interactions, to memories, to music.

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned.

Once I went to watch 'Hatari' with my Mama and there was a rhino attack scene where I cried so much that they had to take me back home at interval.

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

He smelled like a birthday party for small children, like vanilla, crêpe paper, soap, starch, and warm steam and cigarettes.

ONE SUMMER MORNING while I was still a virgin though my virginity was on its last legs, I woke up and didn't want to go to New Jersey.