Ricky Van Veen Quotes

I choose YouTube over telly.

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

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.

Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Everybody is talking about cord cutting. It's not about the cord. It's the content.

With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.'

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

I want to tell Miranda's story more broadly than what I have been in these five-minute videos on the Internet. She can live in a longer format.

What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find a magazine with celebrity bodies - or at least filch your mother's copy from the bathroom. Now the pictures are as endless as they are available.

The digital space is becoming more relevant, and people are watching a lot of stuff on the web.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.

Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online.

I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.

I don't watch TV. I don't listen to radio.

There is room and time for multiple tracks to flesh out in the web space. I enjoy this format.

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

I love the place 'Clone Wars' has on Netflix; it's very accessible, and I think it's great.

Everyone is using the Internet for almost everything - trailers, ads, movies, and short films. This is the only thing that will reach everybody in the world.

We want people on the Internet to go to Imgur for their viral image fix. And what's so awesome about images vs. videos is that instant gratification.