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Quotes from Freddie Wong

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
I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
~ Freddie Wong
From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.
~ Freddie Wong
Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.
~ Freddie Wong
Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we're familiar with in gaming and being like, 'OK, hold on, let's re-examine this for a second. Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this a little bit ridiculous?' That's where it is.
~ Freddie Wong
Online is another way for all of us to reach people.
~ Freddie Wong
I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.
~ Freddie Wong
Deep engagement is much more powerful and valuable than fleeting mass market engagement.
~ Freddie Wong
We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.
~ Freddie Wong
If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut.
~ Freddie Wong
Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.
~ Freddie Wong
Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.
~ Freddie Wong
The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year.
~ Freddie Wong
I'm not even very good at most video games.
~ Freddie Wong
Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects.
~ Freddie Wong
We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic.
~ Freddie Wong
We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work.
~ Freddie Wong
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.
~ Freddie Wong
Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.
~ Freddie Wong
Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.
~ Freddie Wong
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.
~ Freddie Wong