Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic.

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art.

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

Ten thousand years from now our civilization will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the earth. They will come to Mount Rushmore and read the record we have made.

I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.

Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

It may not be art, but it is history.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.