Gale Anne Hurd Quotes

The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

Finding your way doesn't mean surviving, just as pleasing an audience doesn't mean twisting your editorial around search engine optimization and Facebook algorithms.

My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it.

We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.

On YouTube, we were our own masters. We could sit on an edit until we got it right, we could choose quality over quantity.

At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers.

You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything.

My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.

The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing.

We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.

Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.

At our core, we are a content company. That content has to be the very best. You can't be a company of this size and be doing what everybody else is doing.

Style is important, but content comes first.

A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe them as specifically as I can, but I don't really picture anyone in particular.

I have only two conditions to choose a project - content with substance and space to perform.

A lot of people think YouTube is quite easy, when it just isn't. I've been doing YouTube for six years now, and I'd say the hardest years were definitely the first three or four. You have to constantly put out content that is good just to make people come back to your channel, and I work every single day just to try and expand my brand.

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

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