Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it.

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

I keep up with James Kochalka's online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I'll look at it, but I don't usually keep up with any sites other than the 'American Elf.' I always have this feeling that there's not enough space in the screen, like everything's always getting cut off.

YouTube videos, they're more personal and more real than a commercial on TV.

My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting out there for people to see.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

GIFs work because the punch line is instantaneous. It's entirely different from almost any other form of content on the Internet, which takes time to consume.

I'm a professional maker of online video and I love platform diversity of every kind.

Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience enjoys watching stuff on the go, they prefer to watch it alone. It is isolated viewing while cinema is collective viewing.

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

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.

The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it.

When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.

I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.

I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.

I am delighted just to work on a good movie, no matter what the medium is.

I think what working in a short film online is that the response from the audience is immediate whether your short film or web-series works or not, it is immediate. You can see comments and you can also see how many people have viewed it.

Each medium has its own beauty and way of working. While television offers immense reach and long-running shows, films are shorter and they are presented differently. With theatre, it's the thrill of instant feedback.

Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.

I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.