Willie Geist Quotes

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

Television was almost a natural for me.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

My media career came about by accident. In 2006 I was introduced to Roger Ailes, the President of Fox News Channel, by a friend of mine who was an executive producer. Ailes put me on the air one day, and one week later, I was offered a contract.

Like most people in 1997, I hadn't ever even seen a DVD, much less watched one.

I started television in 2015.

When I started my career, I saw that everybody was using Twitter.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.

I think the Internet is right on time. I think it's very important. It's reaching out to millions of people. Even the most slimiest and grimiest hood cats out got iPhones and Smartphones so they're able to view everything on the Internet, so they're well in tuned to what's going on.

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

Social media stars are kind of taking the traditional route, like movies.

I joined Red Chillies entertainment right after I returned from the London School of Economics in 2007.

I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.

I think what's different about this time is that at least pre-Internet there were more similarities between one generation and the next. And now, I think that gap has grown in a very significant way.

After I graduated, I didn't have the resources to go to the studio, which is why I then went to social media.

I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.

When I was in MTV, I wasn't really looking out to do films.

I like working with television. I do.