pay attention

I tried to pay attention to what was fundamental in the book so I could figure out what would be fundamental in the movie.

The specific milieu or situation or circumstances of the characters, you obviously have to consider and pay attention to and do research where you need to.

“Everything I buy in Los Angeles County, I pay attention to fault lines. South Central is the safest place to be when it comes to floods, natural disasters, fires. I own property in other states, but I don’t live there. I’m housing foster youth.”

Aided once again by producers Inflo and Danger Mouse, he has created a suite of spacious, slow-burning confessionals that compel you to lean in and pay attention, slowly revealing their beauty on repeated listens.

But, if anything, he didn’t do enough: to keep his landmark welfare expansion going, pay attention to all the everyday concerns that also mattered, address those worries, or counter the easy misunderstanding and misinformation that rose up in that void.