A shared life is a great life.

Without a goal, you can’t score.

Free time is the enemy of progress

The right time is always right now.

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

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

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

I run 50-70 miles a week and lift five or six days. It's my time.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

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

As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.

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

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

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

I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.

I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.

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

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

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

I get, like, 50 emails a day from kids being like, 'I want to go on this trip around the world. How do I get a sponsor?'

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?

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?

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

I am so disappointed in Apple. I don't even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It's embarrassing. It's just garbage.

I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.

We could fly anywhere in the world given that we had to fly coach but we could fly anywhere in the world or do whatever we wanted to do.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.

I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

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.

If you type 'Salt Flats' into YouTube, you'll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won't find any that were shot in the rain.

So many car commercials are shot in the Salt Flats, and so much great imagery comes out of that place, but I've never been there, and I'm curious.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

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.

I think I'm like that nerdy dad from middle school who always has a video camera, but in the same respect, I only take it out during interesting occasions.

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.

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.

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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