Forgetting Details 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.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I'm one of those weird people that tends to not do the extras and listen to the commentaries and stuff on movies, although I do think they are fascinating and interesting - I'm just so worried that years later I wouldn't remember anything!

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.

Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.