Heather Donahue Quotes

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.

For most people, Twitter feels lonely.

Strangers are an endangered species.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.

The man in the street is always a stranger.