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" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "
Freddie Wong
Digital
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" 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. "
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Want
Time
" 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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" 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
" YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare. "
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YouTube
Place
People
" Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio. "
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Experiment
Niche
" I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see. "
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People
Know
Think
" Drift racing is expensive. "
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Expensive
Racing
Drift
" 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
Possible
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Your
You
Want
" The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second. "
Freddie Wong
World
Building
History
" 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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Best
Strategy
Day
" 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. "
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Think
Some People
People
" We don't believe in competition. "
Freddie Wong
Competition
Believe
" Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible. "
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Character
Doing
Visual
" We believe that the future for content-creators such as ourselves lies in being able to source project money from an audience and deliver on those projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. "
Freddie Wong
Audience
Money
Believe
" We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series. "
Freddie Wong
Quality
Value
Future
" 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
" 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? "
Freddie Wong
Done
Go
Direction
" Video content yearns to be free. "
Freddie Wong
Free
Content
Video
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about. "
Freddie Wong
Hollywood
Talking
Era
" 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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Time
Technology
Place
" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "
Freddie Wong
Quality
Video
Everyone
" We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario. "
Freddie Wong
Own
Ability
Audience
" 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
" Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. "
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Move
Defying
Genre
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Forward
Looking
Team
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Content
Without
Time