Adam Yauch Quotes

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

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 love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

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

When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

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

When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

I still direct my own videos.

I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

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.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.