Masi Oka Quotes

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

When I make a video, I'm always thinking about the fans.

I'm very big on content. I kind of feel like content is king and will continue to be that, so I'm just going to give the fans what they want.

You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'

Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.

The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It's their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.

You want to work on something that people watch and that people like.

As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.

Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.

I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.

I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they're doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.

If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.