Casey Neistat Quotes

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

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?

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

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

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I love video.

The first videos I uploaded on my own personal channel were videos of dogs.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

I'd wanted to be a director since I was five and had been making videos since I was a kid. Then YouTube came around during high school. I was making videos, and it was just a place to put them, like storage.