Jessica Ennis-Hill Quotes

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

We were in a little bubble to a degree, but you'd never really know what was going on elsewhere, you'd done a tour in the States and then you wouldn't really know what the reaction was out of the shows because it wasn't immediate on Instagram and Twitter. It wasn't perhaps as broad as it is these days, it was fab though.

The success came very quickly and it was a different age so one's awareness, especially in a global sense wasn't quite the same as it was these days because of social media and because of the huge variety of media that people are exposed to.

Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it's a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there's also such anonymity.

You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.

While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Social media is so influential now.

I feel like people with their camera phones and Twitter and Facebook, this kind of question like, 'How can I be present and also document my presence or document what I'm doing?' is something that's always on my mind, even when I'm not working as a filmmaker.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.