Tate Taylor Quotes

I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

This show [Timeless] is absolutely epic. I simply can't believe the production value for the episodes. Each episode is creating a new world. I just can't think of another television show that trumps the Hindenburg to the 1970s week to week.

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.

I think when, like, things like 'The Wizard' and even like 'Tron,' when it first came out, I was a teenager, and, man, I really wanted to kind of just kind of disappear into it.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

Our bodies are the time machine.

Books are a time machine.

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?

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.