John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

Behold, I make all things new.

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

I'm getting back to my old roots.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

We can't be beholden to the past.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.