Freddie Wong Quotes
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The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing.
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Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.
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Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.
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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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I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.
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We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.
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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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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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Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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A vlog look is a very specific look, and it's basically a phone look.
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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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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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You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download.
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I'm not even very good at most video games.
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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.
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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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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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Deep engagement is much more powerful and valuable than fleeting mass market engagement.