I can't really remember my life without movies.
Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.
