Teju Cole Quotes

Vine was like no other creative rush I ever had. In minutes, you could conceive an idea, shoot it and send it off to millions.

I spend 6 hours filming a Vine.

Dedicate a lot of your time creating Vines and try to post daily.

In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content.

TikTok is the app that Vine should have been.

I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do.

Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.

My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.

YouTube is my first love.

In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.

To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it's been just amazing.

I still love my little home on YouTube, really.

Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again - and what you've got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.

YouTube came out when I was a sophomore in college, and I feel like I was one of the first people to put musical theater stuff online.

I made a Vine with 50 Cent where I smashed two quarters together, and he popped up.

The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it.

People do Vine so many different ways. If you're original, then you'll get followers. There are people who do selfie Vines, people who do special effects, people who do artistic Vines. You have to find your niche and people will find it. Of course, it helps if you're 16 and if you're a handsome guy who is taking your shirt off.

My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.