I wolf food down like you've never seen. For some reason, I have no self-control when it comes to the pace of eating.
...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.
It isn't an easy thing to cater to a public that gets tired of anything in about three days.
Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.
I consume media in a very frenetic, overtweeting way.
Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.
Every one tells me that I'm a pretty fast eater. I'll sit down to a dinner, and I'll finish in two minutes while everyone else will take 30 minutes.
Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I'll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text.
One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.
