Shirley Manson Quotes

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.

If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I love video.

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

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.

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.

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.

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

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

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.

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

I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.