Casey Neistat Quotes

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Casey Neistat

Profession : Director

Birth : March 25, 1981

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

Casey Neistat

Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.

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If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?

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The idea that somebody would go to my YouTube channel and want to watch movies and then be subjected to some terrible car commercial - I don't like that.

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I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

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I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

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I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.

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I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.

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I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

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I took my iPod to the Apple store here in Manhattan and asked them to replace the battery. And they explained to me that Apple does not offer a service to replace the battery in the iPod, and my best bet was to buy a new iPod.

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I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.

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As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?

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One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.

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I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all.

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I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.

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I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.

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I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

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I use iPod all the time, almost every day. It's great.

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I won't hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that's the honest truth. I don't think you know how it is until you've worked in a restaurant.

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I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

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