MAX JOSEPH

I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.

I don't think the Internet is necessarily a dangerous place. It's only dangerous if you don't make people earn your trust. You can't take people at their word. You got to do a little digging and make sure to verify that you are talking to a real person or the person that you think you're talking to.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

I'm a fairly neurotic person.

I worry about revealing too much of my life on my Instagram posts.

It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself, and there's a discovery process.

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

When I say I'm famous, I'm not kidding myself. I know my place in the celebrity kingdom - right at the bottom next to reality-show contestants, local politicians, and day-players on 'Law & Order.'

As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera.

A lot of times in films, the protagonist is either the leader of the group or the nerd of the group. I've never identified with either of those things.

I was actually cyberstalked twice.

I am a huge Sublime fan, and I think their music immediately puts you in SoCal when you listen to it.

As fame becomes more democratized, we might all have to start struggling with the powers, anxieties, and responsibilities of being a minor celeb.

I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?

I spend a lot of time hanging out with kids in their early twenties who feel like they've messed up and have really screwed up in a lot of ways. We spend a lot of time talking to them and saying, 'You can change that.'

Most people who recognize me don't even know my name. They just yell out ''Catfish!'' or 'Where's Nev?' or sometimes just 'Nev!'

The traveling that 'Catfish' affords us and the cross-section of America that we see on a constant basis, I would have never gotten that living in the bubble that is Los Angeles or going home to visit my parents in the bubble that is New York.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

Getting everyone on the same team is a form of hustling.