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A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.
Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them.
All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.
Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'
Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.
I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.
I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.
I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.
I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.
I have the greatest life in the world because I created it.
I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.
I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.
I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.
I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.
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