Shane Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.”

“Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.”

“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.”

“Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.”

“TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different.”

“If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.”

“The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective.”

“What we found was that Generation Y is absolutely consumed with news. They love news; it's one of their biggest passion points. The problem is they've been disenfranchised by traditional media outlets, and because of that - look, if the world was going along tickety boo, and the Fourth Estate was doing its job, 'VICE' would not be purveying news.”

“You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format.”

“All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.”