Adam Carolla Quotes

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal.

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.

Don't turn on monitization, typically, until it's going to be significant.

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Films are not meant to be watched only by fans but by everyone. Fans are those who like what we do. When we do things that only they like, then we are becoming their fans.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I'm always working and coming up with new and fresh ideas to keep my fans engaged and keep myself relevant.

As an industry, YouTube and digital content have a huge upside to creation and virally reach fans, and there's a multi-billion dollar business of advertising attached to that.

The key thing is, always put the right content on the right network, on the right platform, make it great, and then figure out how to monetize it.

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Genius requires an audience.