Video Making Quotes

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

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

My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the beach, set up a tripod, and I would grab two other friends, and we'd take turns filming and surfing. Then, at the end of the day, I'd go home and I'd make a video for everybody to watch.

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.

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

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.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

Usually a video's fun, but after a while, after a couple hours it's like work because you've got to keep doing the scenes over and over and over again.

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video.

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

I always think about the fact that PewDiePie, who has tens of millions of followers, started with zero. All of my favorite creators started with zero. And all it takes is one video to dive deep, and you are officially a YouTuber. So you've got to make that first video. It's not going to be your best, but you will learn as you go.

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.

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.

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.

I got into a competition with my brother over who could make better Vine videos.

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 didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

Creating content on YouTube played a huge role in helping define myself, as making videos was and still is a creative outlet for me - a way to express myself.

With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing.

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.