Marques Brownlee Quotes

I want to make videos that, if I didn't know myself, I'd want to watch. As long as I'm making myself laugh, I'm usually having a good time. That's how I know I've made a video that I'm proud of: I've made myself laugh.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

My visual medium is my videos, and I've got to feel as though I can put my truth in that.

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

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

People go to YouTube to laugh, and as a YouTuber, your job is to figure out a niche and feed people what they want to see. Now that I know what kind of stuff people want to see, then I will keep going down that road and creating videos that are going to make people laugh.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

Your YouTube channel is your show. I think it's a wonderful platform for anyone who wants to have stronger creative control over their content, their message, their vision and their branding.