Jason Silva Quotes

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.

You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

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

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

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 think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity.

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

I am a YouTube artist.

From early on... we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment.

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

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

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.

The YouTube revolution isn't a revolution in content consumption, although there's a huge number of content consumers. It's about how anybody with a camera or a smartphone can create a video and share it with the whole world.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

Needless to say, I was impressed by Felicia [Day] and her moxie with how to do a web series. I mean, she's the queen of the web.

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.

I think that the social media space is great because that's where my bread and butter is, but I want to jump into doing traditional media and other fun things.

I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.

There was a long stretch of time where I was making these videos, and everyone just thought I was a weirdo because I was making videos in my apartment instead of, like, going out, you know. And so I, like, it's hilarious now because everyone gets YouTube now. But, you know, in 2006, when I started making videos, like, no.

I can't wait to bring #LizaOnDemand to my YouTube audience and hopefully a new audience, too.

I started making videos when I was, like, seven or eight.

I started making videos to post just for my friends to see, and people really liked them. One day, I realized they had a couple thousand views on YouTube - I hadn't even known other people were watching them.