Burnie Burns

“When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.”

“If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.”

“Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.”

“The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.”

“In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.”

“To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?”

“People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.”

“When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.”

“There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It's a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it's one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we're doing individual shots.”

“We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it.”

“'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.”

“Anybody who has traveled with a significant other before knows it's tough.”

“We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.”

“The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That's when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they'll do it.”

“We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.”

“YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.”

“I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.”

“Nothing scales quite the way a sci-fi feature does, I mean, you can always add more visual effects; you can spend a lot of money on the visual fidelity alone.”

“Travel is stressful.”

“I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.”