Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat
Casey Owen Neistat is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker and co-founder of social media company Beme...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 March 1981
CityNew London, CT
CountryUnited States of America
believe kid learned reason school sending tech unless work
The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.
kids
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?'
art dad kids
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.
kids one-day
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.
airport good looking pajamas people percent places public reason rest spend time travel wear
The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That's when looking good trumps comfort.
truth
Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.
dribble ongoing people stories updates watch
I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.
buy mass
I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.
deal filmmaker
I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
everybody execution highly ideas
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
hands interview kinda people sheet skill
One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.
describe flannel nirvana rage raised rebellious shirts sort
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.
both conditions far work
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.
grew
I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.