Permanent Record Quotes

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

You are what your record says you are.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

Even though I do share a lot of stuff, it's a very small portion of my life. And I think you just have to be careful because, anything that you post, it essentially is there forever. If it's not something you don't want everyone to see, don't post it.

With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day's over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that's it.

The record books aren't going to lie. They aren't going to say I sold out. They aren't going to say anything.

Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.

But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Things written, remain.

Never lie in writing.

In my workshops for young adults, the most important thing I emphasize is that anything posted online, no matter how private they think it is, is permanent.

It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with.

You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.

You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.

A tweet in an article can feel more permanent and louder than a tweet on Twitter.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.

Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

There's something very reassuring... about the written record.

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.