Ryan Higa Quotes

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

I think my first video was when I was 19. I was pretty old.

I started making videos when I was, like, seven or eight.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

I'd love to direct more.

It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.

I made my first movie when I was five.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

While working in Bangalore, I was making short films.

I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland.

My biggest thing is I really want to be able to travel and make videos.

Like any other creative person, I would make home videos, and I would make sketches with my friends, and I would make my own movies, so I have some love for the creative process.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.