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. But when you're sort of living with people who are there, we just press record and let them tell the story.
Shane SmithI woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."
Shane SmithI don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. I became sort of aware. I used to get so angry.
Shane SmithAll I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.
Shane SmithI'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.
Shane SmithEvery generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way.
Shane Smith