Freddie Wong

Director

United States

1985 - Present

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At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.
Freddie Wong
The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second.
Freddie Wong
The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year.
Freddie Wong
I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.
Freddie Wong
When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us.
Freddie Wong
One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are.
Freddie Wong
We don't believe in competition.
Freddie Wong
YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare.
Freddie Wong
A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?
Freddie Wong
While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.
Freddie Wong