Steve Chen Quotes

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

We live in a time where there's a required instant gratification from audiences. That's a fun challenge in terms of putting together this teaser, picking and choosing how much you're actually giving away.

TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.

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 thing about TV is you kind of have an endless canvas. You can always keep going.

People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.'

I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

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.

TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.