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" The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. "

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" Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative. "

" 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. "

" Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality. "

" 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. "

" I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth. "

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" 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. "

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

" Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere. "

" You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format. "

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

" All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor. "

" 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. "

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

" I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp. "

" When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that. "

" 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. "

" I have the greatest life in the world because I created it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "