Chad Hurley Quotes

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.

Every film is a journey.

Dialogues and emotion based movies don't always work.

In films, I do programming I can never do in television. I have fun. Both mediums are content-led, but they are so diverse in their psychology that they cannot have a meeting point.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

When you're writing for a game - even if you're using very well known characters like Batman and his villains who lend themselves to many different interpretations - you have to keep in mind that you're writing for a different medium. Things are a bit more straightforward than it is for a feature film or a TV show.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.