As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

I always like to give and present my actors in a different look.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

All I want to achieve is to present the unreported history of Kashmiri Hindus.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated...

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the...

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

I got you a present.Did you?It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.