Justine Skye Quotes

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

Things can change so fast on the internet.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

People are not patient anymore.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

Everything is so fast now, everything is so disposable now, there's no time to build up a career like we used to have in the past.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.

Sometimes I think that our culture lives in its soundbites.

It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen.

No particular technology lasts for long.

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.