Dave McCary Quotes

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't have a script as your bible.

I believe that music videos give us an opportunity as actors to play a different character.

My visual medium is my videos, and I've got to feel as though I can put my truth in that.

I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

Possibly the only genre that efficiently converted from TV to YouTube / Vine is sketch comedy, which has always had more to do with the skills of its creators than its budgets.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.