Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to. "
Freddie Wong
People
Think
Story
Related Quotes:
" I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is. "
Freddie Wong
Think
Some People
People
" The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do. "
Freddie Wong
You
Consumer
Everything
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Movies
Watching
Gone
" If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut. "
Freddie Wong
Gut
You
Your
" If you can't answer the question 'What is VR adding to that experience?' - and it should be more than just a gee-whiz thing - then that project shouldn't be in VR. You're not taking full advantage of your medium. "
Freddie Wong
More
Experience
Question
" We always said that directors work their whole lives to get final cut on a movie. We have that. So why would you want to run away from what every other director is sprinting toward their entire careers? "
Freddie Wong
Want
Said
Run
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
View
Weird
Content
" We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?' "
Freddie Wong
Parents
Say
Fans
" Drift racing is expensive. "
Freddie Wong
Expensive
Racing
Drift
" As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal. "
Freddie Wong
You
Potential
People
" The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year. "
Freddie Wong
High School
School
Game
" Video content yearns to be free. "
Freddie Wong
Free
Content
Video
" We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work. "
Freddie Wong
Control
How
Want
" We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want. "
Freddie Wong
Want
Creative
Control
" A vlog look is a very specific look, and it's basically a phone look. "
Freddie Wong
Look
Basically
Phone
" When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren't perfect, we forgive it. "
Freddie Wong
Perfect
Character
Think
" Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget. "
Freddie Wong
Pay
You
Pay Attention
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
School
Think
Time
" Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects. "
Freddie Wong
Products
Consumer
Creative
" From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that. "
Freddie Wong
Perspective
Creative
Doing
" Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about. "
Freddie Wong
Hollywood
Talking
Era
" It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube. "
Freddie Wong
YouTube
Off
Hard
" We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible. "
Freddie Wong
Believe
Want
Time
" Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. "
Freddie Wong
Move
Defying
Genre
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Going
Very
Lot
" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "
Freddie Wong
Digital
Will
Future
" We founded RocketJump for two reasons: to provide quality entertainment and to reach as many different audiences as possible. "
Freddie Wong
Reach
Different
Possible
" While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture. "
Freddie Wong
Movies
You
Bad
" When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it. "
Freddie Wong
People
Control
Believe
" When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us. "
Freddie Wong
YouTube
Want
Started