Alan Schaaf Quotes
We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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I like creating images.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
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I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.
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We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.
