Video Creation Quotes

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

If you're a documenter, you're taking a video of something in the real world you want to capture. If you're a director, you're trying to create something in the real world.

My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.

I've been making Vine videos for a couple of months. They're just six-second little videos, but I really have fun doing them. It's just fun to feel like you created something.

I'm really involved when it comes to creating the video concepts.

To be a successful Viner, you have to find your own style and be consistent. That will help you stand out from the rest.

I never expected to make the videos a full-time job. I thought I would continue to work as a freelance Web designer and just do the videos for fun. But the audience built so quickly that it became full-time.

People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

I never really set out to have people see my videos.

The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

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

My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

I love doing YouTube. That's where my heart is, and so it makes me sad when I can't put a good, fun, energetic video out, because that's what I love to do - and that's my passion. And that's who I am.

When I first started making the videos, I didn't tell anyone about it.

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.

My biggest thing is I really want to be able to travel and make videos.

'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.

I wasn't aware of social media fame, it was more just making videos with my friends.

Every day, for 1,000 days, I made a video. I never missed a day, not even once. I don't know how I did it.

One of my first videos on VHS, unknowingly at the time, was a stop-motion of a cup moving across a countertop on its own. I was pretending that I was performing some kind of magic trick. It was my way of doing effects without understanding how to edit.

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.

When I first started, I wasn't trying to go viral. I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy.