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" Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about. "
Freddie Wong
Hollywood
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" Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens. "
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" You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download. "
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" I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see. "
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" Views online is a real weird and sticky subject. One view on a 30-second piece of content is not equivalent to one view on a 30 minute video. In my mind it's not quite the same thing. "
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Content
" We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world. "
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Done
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" The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing. "
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" Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera. "
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" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "
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Will
Future
" It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube. "
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YouTube
Off
Hard
" We don't believe in competition. "
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Competition
Believe
" I'm not even very good at most video games. "
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Games
Even
" VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at. "
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Going
Very
Lot
" I don't think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with. "
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Your
You
Want
" Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window? "
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Chair
House
My Own
" Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault. "
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Always
Art
Bad
" When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component. "
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YouTube
Early
People
" One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are. "
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Figure
Goals
Our
" Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget. "
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Pay
You
Pay Attention
" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "
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Quality
Video
Everyone
" We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?' "
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Parents
Say
Fans
" In general, a lot of content creators find that their success is unable to support any sort of organization of scale. It's pretty difficult to support even three or four employees. "
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Three
Success
Support
" The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do. "
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You
Consumer
Everything
" We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series. "
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Quality
Value
Future
" Online is another way for all of us to reach people. "
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" People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it. "
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Watching
Gone
" A user who essentially costs YouTube money has very little say. The way to have a say is to concretely support the creators and channels you watch directly by giving them money. "
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Giving
Support
Say
" We founded RocketJump for two reasons: to provide quality entertainment and to reach as many different audiences as possible. "
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Reach
Different
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" Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now. "
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School
Think
Time