Van Veen Quotes & Sayings

But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part. — Audrey Niffenegger

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money. — Ricky Van Veen

On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it. — Ricky Van Veen

Everything about this place reminded me of the fantasy novels that I'd read when I was little. I'd always wanted to be a part of them, and now it looked like my wish had been granted.
But it would still be a long time until this place felt like home. — Aprille Legacy

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me. — Kiera Cass

Aylin had gotten under his skin, and for all his experience fighting enemies, he had no defense against a female whose strength humbled him, whose voice soothed him, and whose touch drove him wild. — Larissa Ione

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison. — Preston Sturges

When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV. — Ricky Van Veen

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak. — Alfred De Musset

If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long. — Ricky Van Veen

All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it. — Ricky Van Veen

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them. — Ricky Van Veen

I'll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly. — William Shakespeare

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.' — Vidal Sassoon

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything. — Ricky Van Veen

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation. — Ricky Van Veen

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently. — Ricky Van Veen

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies. — Ricky Van Veen