Jools Holland Quotes

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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

I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.

I only remember the future.

I really fell in love with Africa.

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 would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

Definitely, I'd love to do more in New Zealand if it was the right time.

I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

I loved Europe so much.

In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

Writing history takes a great deal of imagination. I don’t mean making things up, but you have to be able to transport yourself to another time.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

I'd love to time travel.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

The past is always - one moment it's what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it's what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can't predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.

It's always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think.

I think anybody's who's ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance of the history and the ghosts you're surrounded by every day.

Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.