Darryl F. Zanuck Quotes

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

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

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

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.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

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.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Sometimes I think that our culture lives in its soundbites.

There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow 'Avatar' is still being discovered by each new generation.

TV creates good viewership because it generates interest by being entertaining.

I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.

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

Television is on a small screen, inside someone's living room, so you have to grab their attention while they are having dinner or cooking or doing something else.

People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.

I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

In a media landscape that has grown in unimaginable ways, there are more projects that have come along now than ever. While the number of projects has grown, many players are vying for that audience.

The generation we live in, we're constantly entertained - we turn our heads this way, and there's something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.

There was a lot of times when I was busking there were a lot of people in your face, like 'More, more! Go again, again, again!'... People were so used to be able to swipe to see something different to entertain themselves that the patience had diminished.

I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.