Casey Neistat Quotes
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.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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Vegas is kind of crazy because there's so much going on. Everyone goes there to be entertained.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.
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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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When you see a person squirming in the clutches of the Law, say to him: 'Brother, get things straight. You let the Law talk to your conscience. Make it talk to your flesh.
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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.
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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.
