Attention Quotes - Page 96

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

In the digital space, attention is a currency. We earn it. We spend it

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.

Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

It's very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it's only sonic. Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone's attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.