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" We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series. "
Freddie Wong
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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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" 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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" 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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" One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are. "
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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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" You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Hulu understood how much content costs. By remaining defensive, YouTube is losing various aspects of video - long-form, for example - to other companies. "
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" It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube. "
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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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" 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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" We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want. "
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" The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time. "
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You
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" 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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" 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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" YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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View
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" 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. "
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" Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio. "
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" A vlog look is a very specific look, and it's basically a phone look. "
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" 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? "
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" If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut. "
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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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" 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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" Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. "
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