Q. The use of language in Consumed is
fascinating. The main characters, both journalists, speak in a stylized way
that is informed by the products they obsess over and fetishize.
A. It arises naturally because
I’m responding to the zeitgeist. I think of it as realism. I mean, there you
are [points down to my iPhone recording the conversation]. And these days I’m
often doing interviews with guys that I’ve known for years who are print
journalists and now they’re trying to do video for their newspapers website
with their iPhone. They’re desperate; they’re required to start doing
photojournalism, video journalism as well. For me, if I’m going to have two
young journalists as my main characters they’re going to be plugged into the
Internet, they’re going to be plugged into technology, in self-defense, or
passion in this case. I don’t think they even think of it as anything unusual.
Do you think of it as
something unusual?
No. I’ve been a techno-geek
forever. I couldn’t wait for word processors to get rid of typewriters and I
couldn’t wait for digital to get rid of film. I have no nostalgia for it
whatsoever. I love the technology and I love the compression of time that it
makes possible, and I love the fact that a word processor works much more like
your mind works. Your mind doesn’t work in a linear way and neither does the
digital world.
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