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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I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
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Through his researches, we now know that the individual psyche is not just a product of personal experience. It also has a pre-personal or transpersonal dimension which is manifested in universal patterns and images such as are found in all the world’s religions and mythologies.
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We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
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Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
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We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.
