Words matter. These are the best Flashback Quotes from famous people such as Liam James, Alain Resnais, Arthur Hiller, John Cameron Mitchell, Phoebe Robinson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve seen ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback.
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor’s office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
The think that we hung the film version all on was ‘Hedwig’ on tour. On stage, it’s one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.
Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!
I think ‘Lost’ didn’t invent the flashback, obviously. It’s been a cinematic tool. It’s been around almost as long as cinema has.
I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you’re walking down the street. Something occurs to you, ‘Oh, no, I said that.’
I speak a little Italian and Spanish because of where I grew up. I also am well-versed in Angelino slang and corporate Euro-speak. I don’t like gimmicks. The biggest gimmick of all is trying to fit in and be ‘normal’. I will always be myself no matter what. Crazy is a compliment. Flashback.
When you ask someone a question, you trigger an unconscious flashback of their having been put on the spot earlier in life by a teacher, parent, or coach, and you create a syntactical ‘you versus me’ disconnect.
Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water’s surface, less precise but more profoundly true.
One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.