It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.
I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.
People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.
I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.
Anything on paper is obsolete!
I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.