Kevin Systrom Quotes

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

Video is just exploding on Instagram - motion is the new filter. We're going to help people use visuals to tell their stories.

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or a social issue or innovation of some kind; whether it was how we told the stories or what stories we told. We produced some online videos.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

Video is the most interesting and engaging way to share an idea with others.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

'Instagram' is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

Brands, musicians, and public figures were among the first to embrace video on 'Instagram', and we've been impressed with how brands have extended their reach with video ads.

Film is anti-language.

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

There are different ways to show and tell through Instagram. What's right for one designer will be very different for another designer, and everyone's going to be figuring things out, but it's a great opportunity to use it for feedback.

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

I love being able to tell a story visually. It's something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy. The likes and retweets - that was, like, a plus.

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.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.

I think animation can tell more than live action.

Very few people view stop motion the way we do. We really try to use it - and animation generally - as a powerful visual medium by which you can tell virtually any kind of story in any genre.