It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.
I'm attracted to the past.
Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
Escapism is survival to me.
I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.
I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.