Italo Calvino Quotes

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

We can never go back.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

We don’t get to replay history.

I'd love to time travel.

The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

I'm always game for movies based on time travel. Hopefully, someday, I'll be a part of a time travel series of films.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

There is no rewind button for life.

The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.