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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. "

Freddie Wong

Movies

You

Bad

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Freddie Wong

Straight

Asking

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

" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "

" 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? "

" We founded RocketJump for two reasons: to provide quality entertainment and to reach as many different audiences as possible. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

Freddie Wong

Experience

Question

" 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? "

Freddie Wong

Done

Direction

" 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. "

" Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget. "

" Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens. "

Freddie Wong

People

Content

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us. "