Stephen Dorff Quotes

Moving forward, the most successful people in the entertainment industry will be 50 percent social and 50 percent traditional, so working with Disney and being super traditional, it brought a whole different audience to me.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

I believe that in today's media landscape, we can create and distribute content on multiple platforms while remaining fresh and relevant.

Social media and digital media will help us develop new fans and connect with our existing fans. It is an area we had to have our entire fingerprints on.

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

When TV came, people said who will go to theatres to watch movies? When the Internet came, they said the same. And now it's the digital media... The doomsday predictions are always there but I don't think people will stop going to cinema halls because that is one experience you can't get at home.

I think YouTube has been super instrumental in our success as well, because I think there's something really important about seeing and hearing what we're doing.

We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.

Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.

We do everything from community management to specific marketing promotions.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

In the end, given the way we view the world and the way that we view ourselves as an entertainment company, our biggest challenge is creating content and creating services. Excite people. We were fortunate we were able to do that with the Wii.

Film and television are major vehicles for American storytelling, and America is the biggest exporter and influencer in the world in terms of telling stories.

I'm not here to say that I want to change the TV industry.

I guess the dream would be to do movies, and keep people updated with my videos.

Promotion is absolutely essential in the movie business.

After you have built a fanbase, people call you to promote their films. Often, it leads to acting offers. After that, it' just a matter of your film working.

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.

Yes, there's more access to film than when I first came into the league, but because of it there's a desire to see more and study more and cover more.

Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.

I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.