Words matter. These are the best Burnie Burns Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don’t know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
In the entertainment industry, careers don’t last very long – and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.
If somebody’s in the community doing cool stuff, we’ll hire them.
It’s really great to see fans all over the world.
We’ve always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
To us, ‘The Amazing Race’ takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we’ve always wanted to go back to it.
Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.
Nothing scales quite the way a sci-fi feature does, I mean, you can always add more visual effects; you can spend a lot of money on the visual fidelity alone.
The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: ‘Red vs. Blue.’
Anybody who has traveled with a significant other before knows it’s tough.
We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn’t watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.
‘Red vs Blue’ as a show has evolved dramatically. It looks an entirely different show to what we started with, but the format of the show has changed so much over the years, too.
People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That’s just not true.
There is an animated version of ‘Lazer Team,’ with all the action sequences, that exists. It’s a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it’s one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we’re doing individual shots.
I have been playing video games since the Atari 2600 days.
Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn’t do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that.
The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That’s when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they’ll do it.
I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there’s definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
We didn’t discover online and think, ‘Oh, this is really lucrative. We’ve got to get on board with it.’ We’ve been here since 2003.
When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that’s all audiences would watch.
We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we’d seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.
