Hollywood

“The whole efficiency driven thing is very Silicon Valley. And the whole quality driven thing is very Hollywood. And rarely do those things meet.”

“What's interesting to me about the Hollywood application is that they actually were some of the earliest adopters, and they adopted it even before it was legal for them to do so.”

“They paved the way for the use of drones in filming because they already had all of the safety procedures and flight manuals and things that they'd been using for manned helicopter shoots for years. So they literally just took those and shifted them over and, …”

“What we tend to do in Hollywood is we think about comps. What is the film like? We just don't have comps.”

“It's because Of Tendo Nagenda being at the center of getting this made, that my character isn't a white missionary which is what it would, which is what it has been up until, you know, when I say a white savior, that's how this film would have got made 10 year…”

“The best weapon, in my view, against prejudice is excellence. If you constantly remain on the undeniable path of excellence, you literally shame people into giving you your opportunities, into making the opportunities that you create yourself.”

“Sometimes creativity in Hollywood isn't all it's cracked up to be. The big studios have so many pressures. Some of our thinking back then is we have to protect Pixar from those, some of those kinds of pressures in order for it to continue to innovate and do or…”

“We're starting to see a shift from VR pieces that are exclusively funded by marketing budgets, because that's all there was to fund them with in the last year to more of the forward thinking studios actually funding content for the purpose of monetizing it.”

“The whole efficiency-driven thing is very Silicon Valley, and the whole quality-driven thing is very Hollywood. And rarely do those things meet.”

“One of the differences between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, this is a town of relationships and emotional connections. I would characterize Silicon Valley as a little bit more transactional. If I need you, I will get together with you and we'll do something. …”

“What we are trying to do is create a platform where we offer short form, and I'm going to describe that in a minute, short form video of Hollywood production quality built for mobile. And mobile first, mobile only, honestly.”

“And it's the good with the bad, right? It's the, it's why you get Silicon Valley, it's why you get Hollywood, it's why you get all the new ideas, it's why you get all these new things, right? It's not an accident, right? But it's a total package.”

“Like, I think it's going, like I, it's going to continue to be obviously very important, but it's going to change a lot because people are going to want to deploy creative assets and likenesses and voices and personalities and so forth. And content and do remi…”

“Within some number of years here, short, I think relatively short number of years, you're gonna have a tool on your laptop, right, that basically is, is like, you work with it, you basically write your script, you know, kind of with AI, and then as you're writ…”

“Each new wave of technology has been greeted by lots of anxiety and then sometimes, sometimes anger or rage. But you know, it's all paid off. And not just economically, but it's paid off in terms of its creative potential.”

“I would say it's one of the great assets of the United States. So if you love America you should probably love Hollywood in the sense that You know, it's been the vehicle that we've had for exporting our culture, our values, our way of life. And if you like th…”

“Like the VCR expanded VCR, I think double the size of Hollywood, right?”

“So the utopian scenario is that basically AI is an enabling technology for a level of creativity and also a level of output. So I would say both quality and quantity but a level of creativity and output from, you know, entertainment professionals, creative pro…”

“CGI in theory should have reduced the price of making movies in reality has increased it because audience expectations went up. And now you go to a Hollywood movie and it's CG, it's wall to wall CGI. And so, you know, movies are more expensive to make than eve…”

“The big moneymaker in Hollywood for the last 20 years has been superhero movies. And let's just say coincident with the beginning of the message is the all the, you know, the results of those movies collapsed, right?”

“These are all the hot button issues that if you screwed them up, you, in, in Hollywood, you got your career destroyed, right? So if you said the wrong thing about COVID lockdowns or vaccines, if you said the wrong thing about Trump, if you said the wrong thing…”

“Fantastic Four is the most pro-family movie in Hollywood since I can't even remember.”

“The COVID explanation is not sufficient for what we've seen in the last five years, because those movies weren't greenlit under conditions of COVID. Those movies were greenlit under conditions of pre-COVID. And so whatever changes have taken place which we can…”

“The movies that are greenlit today, right, are not gonna come out, you know, until, like, whatever, 20, yeah, it's like, twenty-twenty-seven, twenty-twenty-eight soonest, and so we, so we're in this, like, liminal period, or this interstitial period, where for…”

“And of course, you know, that, that, that leads to kind of a, you know, the movie sort of turns into a Valentine to Hollywood and to America and specifically to Sharon Tate. You know, it's like, you know, it really, you know, kind of restores her memory in an …”

“Ben Stiller subsequently became one of the wokest Hollywood figures you know, in the years that follow, like, you know, all, all through the last decade, like, Ben Stiller has been like, you know, to, you know, to the left of Shea Guevara on every social and p…”