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" I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose. "

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" I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker. "

Shane Smith

Now

Think

Everyone

" I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them. "

Shane Smith

Pretty

World

" Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed. "

" If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world. "

" I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no. "

Shane Smith

Place

Internet

" The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.' "

" I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other. "

" One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.' "

Shane Smith

Canada

Back

" Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.' "

" There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal. "

" People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care. "

" When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind. "

" TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different. "

Shane Smith

Different

Chances

" If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you. "

" I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. "

" American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. "

" I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants. "

" Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them. "

Shane Smith

Realize

You

" A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on. "

" I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. "

" The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective. "

Shane Smith

You

Journalism

" I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to. "

" The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do. "

" Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island. "

" If you look at film, distribution is pre-bought. If you've paid for the distribution, you say, 'I have to make sure it's a film that gets enough butts in the seats.' I think that's the problem: It becomes prohibitively expensive, and you can't develop films for a smaller amount of money. "

" I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest. "

" Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story. "

" It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die. "

" The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative. "

" If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea. "