Jay Roach 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.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

One day, I can come up with 50 content ideas, and I'm like, 'Boom, I want to do this idea, this idea, this idea.' I have a YouTube notebook, and I write them all down. Then other days, I'm like, 'I have no clue what I want to do today.' I rarely have days like that.

Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn't do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that.

If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.

I want to create content for TV and films.

The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'

All of my videos, everything I upload is short and edited.

When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space.

When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.

The thing to keep in mind is that's how I started long before MTV and Twitter and Facebook. I studied at broadcasting school so I could learn how to shoot and edit videos, and tried to create my own television show so we could see through these wacky visions we had of funny bits we wanted to shoot.

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

Whether it's 'Fish' or 'Annabel Scheme' or 'The Truth About the East Wind,' I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold the kind of content I want to create.

I read the viewer comments and that helps me decide what my next video will be.

When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do in our lives in the videos.

I create videos for my YouTube channel Chescaleigh and for 'Decoded,' a series with MTV.

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

When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

I want to make my own Netflix originals.

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

I do media work but I don't do broadcast on TV. I'm a content producer and creator, so I just go out there and produce awesome content.

I would film one or two videos a weekend and upload those throughout the week. For a month and a half, I was just constantly filming. There was no downtime. There was always a camera in front of my face.

'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.