Dave McCary Quotes

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.

Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

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

I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

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?

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.

The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.

When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us.

YouTube came out when I was a sophomore in college, and I feel like I was one of the first people to put musical theater stuff online.

StyleHaul will allow me more opportunities to express my point of view in the lifestyle and fashion space.

The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

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

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 think I started doing more of the video probably in college. My major was multimedia, so it was probably closer to then because that wasn't really readily available and easy to do.

I loved being able to support my family by making Vines.

I don't want to make silly videos.

I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.