Edward Snowden Quotes

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

A lot of people have said 'people should see you work in the studio,' because a lot of people don't realize I'm an actual engineer. I don't walk in and have some guy grab the board. I have my own studio and soldered every wire in the studio.

I don't just shoot videos and post them. If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it.

As someone who started in the digital background, it's an easier, better, faster platform to bounce off of. You already have so much momentum, and you already have the experience. You're already comfortable being in front of the camera.

As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam and used iMovie to edit the video, which I still use.

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

I always have a ring light with me.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

I've always done YouTube myself: everything is written, edited, produced, and promoted by myself.

I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

As time goes on, the more I value doctors and plumbers. Doctors a little more. I can fix my own toilet but I still can't operate on myself.

I always want to watch something I've done, so that I know what I didn't do well.

Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with as much ease. It was more like, when you've seen photos of cameras from the 1930s being moved around with these huge cranes. So there was something quite sort of old-fashioned about it almost.

I like digital because you can shoot for longer.

Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content.

Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.