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" One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are. "
Freddie Wong
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" Online is another way for all of us to reach people. "
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" Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly. "
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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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" 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. "
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More
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" 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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" At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere. "
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" We were looking for representation that was creatively and commercially in synch with our core DNA. The team at WME understands where we're going, and we're looking forward to taking our company to the next level with them by our side. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about. "
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" Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio. "
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" Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we're familiar with in gaming and being like, 'OK, hold on, let's re-examine this for a second. Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this a little bit ridiculous?' That's where it is. "
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" I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that. "
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" 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. "
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" We don't believe in competition. "
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" A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this? "
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Go
Direction
" 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. "
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You
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" 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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Support
" Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects. "
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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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" We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic. "
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" The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do. "
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" I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life. "
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" I get occasional tweets from people asking what shampoo and conditioner I use. I go straight for the Costco brand, Kirkland brand, the bulk shampoo. That's as far as I go. "
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Straight
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" 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
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Say
" 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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People
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" We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want. "
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Want
Creative
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" We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?' "
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