Quotes About Relevance

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

Priority is a function of context.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

It happens that we DON'T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.