Clara Jeffery Quotes

You really can create a lot of value by putting content and distribution together, particularly if the content is cable content.

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.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

I don't think I'll be doing daily videos forever.

We kept moving forward, kept pretty particular about certain things. Don Handfield is really great with story, so we kept working on it from that angle and developed a lot of IP over the years, which we became very proud of.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

You can't just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in your face. No one would ever think it was a good idea to use a print ad for a television commercial, or confuse a banner ad for a radio spot. Like their traditional media platform cousins, every social media platform has its own language.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

The beauty of Netflix is that you can figure out a good part of the season before you get started. You're never in the hole of, "Oh, we've already released the first four episodes, and now we gotta make the finale, and we've already promised this."

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects us and makes us human. That got to me, the power of these stories, and the lessons these tales give us to create the connection between us.

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.