Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat
Casey Owen Neistat is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker and co-founder of social media company Beme...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 March 1981
CityNew London, CT
CountryUnited States of America
son my-son
My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.
curious capability
I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.
thinking insane care
I don't really care for or that much about Chat Roulette. I think the phenomenon of it and like the first wow factor which was so absolutely insane about Chat Roulette. Certainly that's what inspired me to make that movie but I think that's true for everyone that used Chat Roulette which is why it was such an explosion. Now it's just kind of disappeared. You don't hear much about it anymore.
kind film
That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but how do you make something that has a universal appeal. Those are the movies that intrigue me the most.
people serious
I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love that movie. I totally love that movie, but nothing intrigues me more than the fact that it made like $2.7 billion and so how many people had to see it for it to make that much money.
trying prove
I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.
art trying tough
Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.
opportunity risk bigger
Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.
fun sat
The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.
right-time right-now
The right time is always right now.
enemy-of-progress enemy progress
Free time is the enemy of progress
ideas execution matter
It's the execution that matters, never the idea.
risk
The biggest risk is to take no risk at all
creative reason-why reason
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong