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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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" Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. "

" One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are. "

" When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component. "

" 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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" Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible. "

" On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement. "

" We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?' "

" 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. "

" I'm not even very good at most video games. "

" We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Drift racing is expensive. "

" 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? "

" There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers. "

" We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic. "

" Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects. "

" Video content yearns to be free. "

" 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. "

" The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do. "

" You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube. "

" 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. "

" 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. "