Max von Sydow Quotes

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

It's kind of weird because 'Saint George' shoots on the exact same lot that 'Justified' did and, actually, the exact same soundstage, too.

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

Anywhere warm would be ideal for me to shoot 'Imposters!' Thailand would be fantastic.

I drove past one of the houses in Tiruvanmiyur and asked them if we could shoot there for 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya' because it seemed straight out of the pages of the script.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

I don't even know my own phone number.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.