Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.
I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all they can be, I think that's so much more important than one person's glory.
I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.
At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
I'm not a very vengeful person. I like to accept people; I tend to see the good in everybody, so I'm kind of stupid like that.
It's good to let the other worries have a vacation and have different worries take over and then go back to the old worries.
If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.
It's so much easier to measure life in experience points.
My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
My fans probably know what I had for breakfast that morning. And that's the cool part. And I respond to people, if they post on my blog, I'm like, "Oh, that's really cool you read that book, that fantasy series!" It's almost like they're my friends in a sense. There's less separation. They know me more as a human being with my flaws, versus some kind of actor on a pedestal.
The cool thing about what I'm doing, I feel, is that with the Internet, I do my Twitter and I have a blog, and I personally answer as many e-mails as I can, and thank people. I'm going to be on House next week, and people are like, "Oh my gosh, Felicia's on House!" And it's almost as if I'm their cousin, or just a friend or a neighbor who did that. Vs. some famous person.
Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
