Shane Dawson Quotes

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

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.

I got into a competition with my brother over who could make better Vine videos.

For the very first video I ever made, I was told to film our family reunion, or something like that, and I had so much fun with it that I just kept doing it since then - probably since seventh grade.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

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

I made my first movie when I was five.

My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

I learned from making random little personal projects, like school projects or little GoPro montages with music. Then once I made my channel, I really improved just by making video after video.

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

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

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

I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet. I would force my sister to make these movies with me - which became my YouTube channel.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

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

I haven't done any major filming with a major production company yet, but I've definitely done a lot of filming with a lot of professionals, filmers, and film little edits and put them up online. But I would definitely say that slope style skiers are entertainers as much as they are athletes.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

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.

It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.