Quotes About Time

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

Our daughter is a miracle baby, and having time with her and my sons means everything to me - they're why I kept fighting.

Especially in Los Angeles you get attached to these projects and then they lie around and you wait and look for that moment in time when everything just works out - every movie that gets made here in LA is a little bit of a miracle.

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

Covid time was not a fun time, I'll say that much. There was probably a week and a half there that was pretty miserable. And obviously I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

I like hanging out with retired Gronk cause we get a lot more time together, but I miss going to the games, and dressing up, and suitin' up, and cheering him on.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

There was something very special about 'Doctor Who', and I did miss it a lot.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.