Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.
I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.
Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.
Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.
Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.
If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
Roen snorted. "You two have the strangest relationship in the Dells. " Archer smiled slightly. "She won't consent to make it a marriage. " "I can't imagine what's stopping her. I don't suppose you've considered being less munificent with your love?" "Would you marry me, Fire, if I slept in no one's bed but yours?" He knew the answer to that, but it didn't hurt to remind him. "No, and I should find my bed quite cramped.
What makes a mockery of a lot of these 3D conversions, where they're shot in 2D and converted to 3D. Having laid a real 3D movie, you realize that it's right in the production design. You design sets that enhance the 3D and you design interactive elements, like the rain or smoke. If you're shooting 2D, you don't know about that.
I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.