Quotes by Shane Smith

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I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

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 want...

Shane Smith

If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.

Shane Smith

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

Shane Smith

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

Shane Smith

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Shane Smith

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

Shane Smith

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

Shane Smith

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.

Shane Smith

A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.

Shane Smith

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

Shane Smith

Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

Shane Smith

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

Shane Smith

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.

Shane Smith

I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp.

Shane Smith