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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What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.
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I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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I told our guys it's very important for us to go home this winter and not give anybody the ability to call us losers again. They've been called that for 12 straight years.
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We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.
