Science & Tech Quote by Chris Wedge

Wedge’s “obviously” is doing sly rhetorical work: it frames technological change as less a debate than a weather system. You can complain about the rain, but you still get wet. Coming from an animation director who built a career inside the churn of digital tools, the line carries a pragmatic optimism, not a futurist manifesto. He’s not promising utopia; he’s bracing for impact.

The next move is the feint: “Who knows what will result?” That shrug is strategic. It grants uncertainty without surrendering authority, a way of sounding honest while still steering the takeaway. Then he snaps the camera into focus with “One thing is certain,” a classic storyteller’s pivot from chaos to narrative. The subtext is that artists can’t control the arrival of new mediums, but they can control whether they treat them as gimmicks or grammar.

The comparison to movie film is the real tell. He isn’t saying computers will make stories “better.” He’s claiming a shift as fundamental as cinema’s leap from stage-like tableaux to editing, close-ups, and visual rhythm. Film didn’t just speed up storytelling; it invented new kinds of suspense, intimacy, and spectacle. Wedge implies computer technology will similarly expand the toolkit: worlds that can be iterated, performances that can be sculpted, camera moves that defy physics, and pipelines where “impossible” becomes a budget line item rather than a creative dead end.

Contextually, this comes from a generation that watched animation move from ink and paint to pixels and render farms. The intent is a quiet warning to traditionalists: adapt, because the language of popular storytelling is about to pick up a new accent.