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
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. – 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
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
I don’t care if I die – look, I’m old – but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. – Shane Smith
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. – 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
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
If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea. – Shane Smith
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. – 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
I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. – 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
I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it’s the most beautiful place on earth. – Shane Smith
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
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. – Shane Smith
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea… I had, like, every war-torn country in there. – Shane Smith
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. – 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
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. – 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 wanted to do. – 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
