I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
We live in a visual world now.
It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.
Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don't have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.
I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.
I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe!
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
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