Felicia Day

Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.

I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.

My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to tell stories that haven't been told before but can't do that on TV because different stories are a risk.

That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.