Nick Woodman Quotes

Now I'm the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything - trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool - just chasing them around as they grow.

I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar.

I had two little daughters - I think they were 7 and 4 at the time - and I said, 'I'll write you a story. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, 'That'll be the title.'

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.

I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.

I have a dream! Someday I'll show my children a map. I will tell them, 'Mommy was here and here and there and there.' That's my dream.

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.

Always remember your kid's name.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

I'm very proud of my children. And they've done a wonderful job, and they've been wonderful, wonderful kids.