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Casey Neistat Biography

Casey Owen Neistat (/ˈnaɪstæt/; born March 25, 1981) is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger, and co-founder of now-defunct multimedia company Beme.

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My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

Nine, Ninety, Ninety Nine, Percent, Son

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

Execution, Idea, Ideas, Matter, Matters

A shared life is a great life.

Life, Life Is, Shared

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Biggest, Risk, Take

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

Hbo, Pie, Sky, Ultimate

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

Doing You, Everyone, Ifs, Wrong

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.

Care, Insane, Movie, Thinking

One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was that I wanted to sit in the studio and figure something out. All those things manifested themselves into what the TV show was.

Day, Kid, Kids, One Day, Things, Tv Shows

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

Creator, Creators, Define, Job, Jobs, Mediums

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

Bigger, Opportunity, Payout, Risk, Time, Took

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.

Art, Figuring, Live, Living, Trying, Want

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.

Cameras, Imovie, Like, Prove, Trying, Use

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

Comedian, Intelligent, Laugh, Laughing, People, Preserve

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'.

Back, Cameras, Fun, Lets, Letting Go, Said

For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I do it?" And my response was always the same: "Just make something. " Stop talking about it. You do in a way that the work takes on a life of its own. Like the "Signature" series [(2008), in which the artist trekked across the United States in the shape of his own signature] was a simple concept that became this story about the people you met along the way.

2008, Artist, Concept, People, Show, Simple

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

Instagram, Lucky, Lucky Charms, Marshmallow, Marshmallows

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

Creative, Interesting, Right, Technical, Think, Thinking

To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make a movie that has that much mass appeal what it is? What is it that makes kids in China want to see that movie [ 'Avatar'] and makes my dad want to see that movie.

Appeal, Art, China, Dad, Kids, See

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

Assuming, Expands, Guiding, Guiding Principles, Risk, Shrinks

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.

Appeal, Esoteric, Feature, Kind, Like, Littles

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