Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.
Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
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