Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.
I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.
But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
In television - not film, and not factual, nothing else - within television, likeability is everything, and relatability is everything.
There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.
I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.
I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.
The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.
Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?
The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.