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" We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic. "
Freddie Wong
First
Videos
Consumers
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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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" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "
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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 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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Believe
Want
Time
" 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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Believe
" 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
Go
Asking
" The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time. "
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You
Getting
Moment
" 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. "
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Own
Ability
Audience
" 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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Perfect
Character
Think
" 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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Time
Work
Decision
" 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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Creative
Done
Business
" Deep engagement is much more powerful and valuable than fleeting mass market engagement. "
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Market
Fleeting
Deep
" As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal. "
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You
Potential
People
" 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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People
Think
Story
" 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
Content
More
" I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows. "
Freddie Wong
Web
Want
See
" Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. "
Freddie Wong
Move
Defying
Genre
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Best
Strategy
Day
" 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? "
Freddie Wong
Chair
House
My Own
" I'm not even very good at most video games. "
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Good
Games
Even
" When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us. "
Freddie Wong
YouTube
Want
Started
" 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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Forward
Looking
Team
" We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work. "
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Control
How
Want
" 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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Three
Success
Support
" 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
" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "
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Digital
Will
Future
" 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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Reach
Looking
Look
" We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?' "
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Parents
Say
Fans
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
YouTube
Early
People