Edwin Catmull Quotes

Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there's a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

There are lots of channels and lots of companies looking for content, as they say, but it's quite difficult to get things off the ground.

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

The parallel we like to make.... is the idea of becoming the next Warner Brothers, which is a company that creates the content, but they also produce the content. They also distribute; they also market. So we say that because Fine Bros. and Warner Brothers is fun to say.

I always believed in curating content, and the only way to do in our country is by turning producer. So then, I thought, lets turn producer and see how it goes.

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

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.

'Okja' I don't think would have been made if Netflix hadn't made it. That, to me, is a much bigger thing than whether someone watches it on a big screen or a phone. Because it simply wouldn't have existed otherwise.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity.

It's unfortunate when I see brands spending a lot of time and money on creating online content that hardly anyone watches.

I left Disney in 2000 because I thought that the process of watching TV was really going to change, and the process of creating it and the business model had to change, too.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

All of my videos, everything I upload is short and edited.

The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.

When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.

There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.

Television is all about deadlines.

I have worked in the media/content business my entire life.

People are so accustomed now to social networking. Now everybody has custom-made news for him or her. So everybody is a content maker and a content reactor.