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" Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget. "
Freddie Wong
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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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" 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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" 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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" One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are. "
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" We don't believe in competition. "
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" We're able to push the envelope with what we're doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for. "
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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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" 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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" Video content yearns to be free. "
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" 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. "
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" Deep engagement is much more powerful and valuable than fleeting mass market engagement. "
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" YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I'm not even very good at most video games. "
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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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" We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series. "
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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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" Youku Tudou gives us the reach into China that we've been looking for, and we look forward to sharing even more content with international audiences in the near future. "
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" People always ask us, 'When are you guys gonna do a movie? When are you gonna do a TV show?' And to me, that feels like such a step backwards from where are. "
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" We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement. "
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" Drift racing is expensive. "
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" A vlog look is a very specific look, and it's basically a phone look. "
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