“I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.” ThinkingOpinionFailingTerribleExcuseBoredBoredomNo ExcusesPropensityBeing Bored Author:Geoff Dyer
“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.” IfsFirstsTwoLastsMovingAttentionQualitySpecialCenturyExpectationsShotsTwentiesBoredLengthSecondsIntensityMoronFriction Author:Geoff Dyer
