In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

We forgot about that a long time ago. The past is gone. We're more excited about the present and we took care of business tonight.

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.