The biggest idea of a good time for me is making the Batman videos that we did. That is my ideal day. That is exactly what I want to be doing… I like doing cartoons. I like writing things.
I want to put my harshness into rap videos and create a new style.
When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything – that’s why my videos are blurry.
I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.
I try to find happiness in almost anything… watching videos about new exercises, like ones you can do on a flight when you clench your buttocks.
You don’t have to take my word for it, obviously, but in making 1,000 videos, 98 per cent of them I lost money on. So I know a thing or two about staying true and rising above the money. Because if I was for the money I would be someone who’d put up Coca Cola in my videos left and right.
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they’re like this short little stab.
My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even ‘The Road’ was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.
Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you’re making things on your own.
Generally, I’m attracted to videos that hit me some way nostalgically.
Compared to a lot of artists, I’m usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
There are films like ‘Interstellar’ where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX – it’s an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can’t replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
We noticed that the most popular videos at YouTube showed people making things.
As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement’s unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren’t exactly flattering for law enforcement.
When I’m 65 and still performing every week, I’d like people to say, ‘You know, when that guy was a kid, he made these weird, crazy videos?’ And they’ll have to go look for them – rather than it being the first thing they know about me.
Even though I’ve won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
There’s nothing anybody who watches my videos doesn’t know about me, unless it’s something genuinely sacred and private to me.
When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.
I moved to L.A. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I really like the entertainment industry. I started to make videos on YouTube to get more comfortable being in front of the camera. The first video I filmed was with my sister.
All of my old videos and the things I did on MTV, my old public access show – it was sort of all made for the Web, even though they were made before the Internet was broadcasting video.
I love MTV. I watched ‘Beavis and Butthead,’ ‘Wayne’s World,’ ‘Yo! MTV Raps.’ And they used to have music videos on there. When I got the chance to be on MTV, I took the first opportunity.
The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.
I’m looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I’m building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
I grew up watching YouTube and it was tough feeling like everyone I watched had a perfect life. I couldn’t help but feel that my life sucked when I watched their videos.
People love me when I do selfie videos, so I know they like me in music videos as well. Otherwise, I would have just been a playback singer.
Before an interview, I’ll go down a rabbit hole of research – it’s amazing how many little nuggets you can pick up from watching YouTube videos.
My guiltiest pleasure in life is ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos.’ I watch them all – old, new – I don’t care. Despite how bad the writing is on the show. The people getting hit and hurt, that’s hilarious.
Before ‘Pretty Girl’ was released, I didn’t really talk about my YouTube channel or show anyone. I didn’t expect any of my videos to blow up like ‘Pretty Girl’ did.
When we first started making videos, we didn’t have a boom mic, so we had to talk really loud. And then we got a boom mic and were like, ‘Wow, we’re shouting,’ and had to learn to bring it back.
Make movies. Don’t make videos. Videos are evil.
My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.
Videos is the worst. Let me make it clear: Videos suck. It sucks making a video. It’s happy when it’s over and edited and online, but making it, it ain’t really too much fun.
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
My community grew on social media because I don’t exclude anybody from any walk of life. The videos that I create are seen throughout the world and are funny no matter what language you speak.
I always do my own makeup, hair, and styling, including in videos and on, like, album covers.
I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.
I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.
I need to keep reminding myself that I don’t need a million people to watch my videos, all I need is one. If one person reaches out to me and says, ‘This is great, I love it, let’s be friends,’ I am just as content.
It’s just weird because videos games let you be something that you’re not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.
When I’ve stopped doing workouts and YouTube videos, I want this content that I’ve created to be used in schools all around the world. This is what I want to be remembered for.
By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We’ve sold tons of them.
I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: ‘Make It Real.’
My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it’s not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.
We would not have ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ without drunk brides and grooms falling into cakes.
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.
It’s difficult to see my daughters on television and in music videos, and then I get tweets or comments about crushes and, ‘Hey can I date? And hey, I’d be a good son-in-law type.’
As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it because it’s fun and touches on all of the activities she is interested in – videos, books and art.
I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.
I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, ‘Guncrazy,’ at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site).
Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that’s why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they’re not, it doesn’t really add up to me.
In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.
David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we’re kind of dad-friends through that, too.
