It's the execution that matters, never the idea. Casey Neistat More Quotes by Casey Neistat More Quotes From Casey Neistat If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong. Casey Neistat doing-you ifs The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe. Casey Neistat safe life-is play As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. Casey Neistat guiding-principles assuming risk If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong Casey Neistat creative reason reason-why The biggest risk is to take no risk at all Casey Neistat risk Free time is the enemy of progress Casey Neistat enemy-of-progress progress enemy The right time is always right now. Casey Neistat right-time right-now 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. Casey Neistat want trying art Without a goal, you can’t score. Casey Neistat score goal If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows. Casey Neistat marshmallow lucky-charms instagram Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there. Casey Neistat bigger risk opportunity 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'. Casey Neistat down-and letting-go fun A shared life is a great life. Casey Neistat life-is Our job as creators is to further define any medium. Casey Neistat mediums creator jobs I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat. Casey Neistat preparation cooking editing The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me. Casey Neistat creative interesting thinking 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. Casey Neistat insane firsts thinking 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. Casey Neistat cameras use trying 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. Casey Neistat given wanted world 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. Casey Neistat tv-shows one-day kids
