Quotes About Attention

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.

Even I get fan mail.

The phone's never far away. The TV's always on. We are constantly on the news cycle; either watching the news, making the news, talking about the news.

These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

I won't say I'm not fascinated by the way advertising works. I like the sleekness. But a picture in advertising doesn't last too long. They have to work for 30 seconds. And I'd like to reach at least two minutes. This is my goal: to break that two-minute record.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

I don't like fast editing.

I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to move faster.

I know the fastest way for me to get acclaim is to criticize the league. I can do that tomorrow. I come out and criticize the league, and they're all going to be writing stories about how edgy I am. The problem comes in, what happens if you feel the other way?

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Being in front of the cameras is not my favorite thing to do. But it's a good problem to have.

You know the press and the TV. There are those who are favourites and those who are not. I was one of the latter.

I don't know how I became controversy's favourite child.

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.

Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed?

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same - whether they come from a credible source or not.