Marguerite Moreau Quotes

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will be interesting to you.

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Memories are the best things in life, I think.

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

I don't watch my old films. It's over and done with. I'm proud of my films, but who watches their movies after 20 years?

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

Every film has been a personal milestone for me.

All of my records have their own vibe, depending on what was going on in my life.

I spent my childhood in Delhi. I have met my wife here. I spent my life here with my parents and sister. It's been beautiful. But I have very fond memories.

No one can take away the experiences I have had.