Quotes About Nostalgia

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.

You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.