Jim Lampley Quotes

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: the dumbing down of the audience. To be part of an audience is a privilege. To be with the people on stage, to let them reach you. If you're doing a million other things, they won't reach you.

One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.

A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

I was asked to address a congressional caucus and told to keep it brief as congressmen have such short attention spans.

It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen.

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience needs to excite me so much that I am desperate to share it.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.