Shane Dawson Quotes

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

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

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

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

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

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

I carry my camera with me everywhere. I'm a vlogger!

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 want to stick with movies, but I also want to stick with YouTube. I'm never going to give up YouTube. I'm never going to stop making videos for the people who continue to watch them. That's my home base. That's what I love; that's what I know.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I'd make my friends be in them and then edit them.

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.

I guess the dream would be to do movies, and keep people updated with my videos.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.

Today, you have platforms that teach you everything from opening your own YouTube channel to using Shazam.

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.

We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

I still direct my own videos.

I moved to L.A. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I really like the entertainment industry. I started to make videos on YouTube to get more comfortable being in front of the camera. The first video I filmed was with my sister.