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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. "
Freddie Wong
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" It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube. "
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YouTube
Off
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" 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
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Perspective
Creative
Doing
" Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers. "
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Trying
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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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School
Think
Time
" You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download. "
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Money
Making Money
People
" We don't believe in competition. "
Freddie Wong
Competition
Believe
" 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
" 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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Step
People
Always
" Hulu understood how much content costs. By remaining defensive, YouTube is losing various aspects of video - long-form, for example - to other companies. "
Freddie Wong
Costs
Losing
YouTube
" The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time. "
Freddie Wong
You
Getting
Moment
" It's rare to find a corporate partner who encourages true creativity, but our meetings with Lionsgate's creative team convinced us that this is the right move for RocketJump and our millions of fans. "
Freddie Wong
Partner
Creative
Team
" Video content yearns to be free. "
Freddie Wong
Free
Content
Video
" I'm not even very good at most video games. "
Freddie Wong
Good
Games
Even
" Drift racing is expensive. "
Freddie Wong
Expensive
Racing
Drift
" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "
Freddie Wong
Quality
Video
Everyone
" We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series. "
Freddie Wong
Quality
Value
Future
" Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible. "
Freddie Wong
Character
Doing
Visual
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Straight
Go
Asking
" 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
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Creative
Done
Business
" 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
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Three
Success
Support
" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "
Freddie Wong
Digital
Will
Future
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Time
Technology
Place
" On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement. "
Freddie Wong
Advertising
Side
Most
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
People
Think
Story
" 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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Done
Go
Direction
" Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about. "
Freddie Wong
Hollywood
Talking
Era
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Your
You
Want