David Levithan Quotes

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified … for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

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

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

I'm not a Twitter fan. I do it because I feel responsible to the two million people that follow me, but Twitter to me is just another thing I have do. And it's mostly a place for people to attack and abuse you. I don't really get much out of it, personally. I get hundreds of demands to answer the kind of medical questions that require three years of treatment to assess, yet people are furious when I don't solve their problems in 140 characters. It's really stunning.