Canadian - Journalist | 1970 -
I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.
Shane Smith
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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.
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I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.
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American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
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When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.
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I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.
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Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.
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Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
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All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.
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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.
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People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.
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The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.
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