Jason Schwartzman Quotes

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

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

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

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