Tripathi: Video gaming is bigger than movies, music, and books combined
“Because gaming is bigger than movies, music, books combined.”
Deora: Feature films carry the highest launch pressure of any medium
“And the higher pressure, this is on a movie because you can't do anything. It's the highest pressure. You can do some testing for like 200 people and you can say, ha, We'll reshoot. What can you do? Like 1:02, you can't get everything together again. You're do…”
Horowitz: AI will make movies better and lower production costs
“I think AI will help you make movies both better and at much lower cost because you can do, you know, you can shoot a scene and then have the AI do a variation of that scene.”
Horowitz: AI video is a distinct creative medium, not just efficiency
“It's not like making the old thing more efficient. It's a new medium. It's an actual new thing in the same ways that like movies weren't plays. You know, AI video is not video. The stories that you can tell are completely different because you can do things th…”
Musk: Future movies and games will be overwhelmingly real-time AI generated
“I mean, I think it's going to be overwhelmingly AI generated. Yeah. Like, yeah, real, real time movies and video games. Real, real time video generation, I think, is where things are headed.”
Andreessen: Movies serve the cultural function ancient myths once filled
“I think movies play the role in our culture that myths and legends used to play in ancient cultures, or that novels used to play a hundred years ago. They're the art form that, that is capable of basically containing and expressing and making permanent the mos…”
Lessin: Media bifurcates into TikTok and serialized TV, eliminating two-hour movies
“Well, there's even longer stuff, like the Game of Thrones serialized, goes on forever type shit, which is like a thousand hours, and then there's like the TikTok, but the middle drops out, right? And movies as a format is the middle”
Ohanian: 80% of TV and movies will lose attention market share
“I think it is, let's go back to that Pareto, eighty-twenty action. I think 80% of movie, television, that kind of scripted, created, even non-scripted, that sort of entertainment slips.”
Kamath: Society should not derive its morality from movies
“I don't think movies should be where society derives their sense of morality.”
Jason Citron: Gaming is larger than music and movies combined
“Today in, in, in, 24, gaming is the largest form of entertainment. Bigger than music and movies combined.”
Lessin: Bullish on Creators Because Media's Durable Core Is Human Connection
“I think it's going to be about connection and community, ultimately. And this is why I'm very bullish on creators, right, is for what it's worth. Like, I think people will build communities. The story medium, sure, you'll make movies. It'll be cheap to make mo…”
Horowitz: High costs and legal hurdles artificially limit great movies
“You know, there aren't, there should be more great movies. There definitely should, you know, given the talent of humanity, but the bar to make a movie is so high and requires, you know, so much money and so much coordination and lawyers that, that is quite di…”
Sutaria: Modern movie audiences prioritize relatability over aspiration
“When we're looking at the movies today, we care more for relatability rather than aspiration.”
Sam Parr: AI voice cloning will be used in future movie production
“That Anthony Bourdain thing, that's obviously, that's gonna happen. That's gonna happen in the future, how movies are gonna come about.”
McGonigal: Disturbed individuals model violent fantasies on whatever media they consume
“Your fantasies are likely to be informed by whatever media you're consuming, whether it's graphic novels or movies or video games, and so you may act out what you've seen in a game. If you weren't a gamer, you might act out what you've seen in a movie.”
Koppelman: Movies and television are rapidly merging on streaming platforms
“Movies exist on streaming platforms now, so I think these things are all becoming one thing pretty quickly.”
Thompson: North American movie production has grown sevenfold since the 1990s
“Since the 19 nineties, the number of movies made in the North American market has grown by a factor of seven.”
Cowen: Contemporary television is overrated while movies are underrated
“I think movies are actually much better than TV. TV now is a bit overrated and movies underrated.”
Elman: Global video game spending exceeds movies and music
“The amount spent on games as an entertainment, it's actually bigger than movies worldwide, And it's certainly bigger than music.”