I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
My mum records everything I'm in on VHS. Like, who still has VHS? I told her it's all online now, but she still tapes it.
When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.
As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.
Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.
I grew up on radio, not TV.
I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.
I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.
I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.
I'm not mad at digital media at all; I just see the importance and beauty of physical media.
I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
Reading is what people did before YouTube, and I love retro stuff!
There was no DVR, no Netflix, and no binge-watching. We didn't even have a VCR till I was nearly out of high school.
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.
Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.
