I’m Casey Neistat and I’m a filmmaker I
make all kinds of films I’ve made some
feature films some television but my
favorite genre my favorite style of
films is short movies for the Internet
the Internet is my favorite place to
post my work because it’s kind of a free
democratized
accessible distribution platform
creatively having that instead of having
that someone to prove it or somebody
else sign off on your work has opened up
the doors for an entirely new genre
filmmaking maybe like 10 years ago when
I was really just making movies to share
them with my friends I made one movie in
particular where my ipod stopped working
and Apple refused to fix it and I made a
little three-minute video about that and
I posted it on the internet and it went
viral in the hugest way and this was
three years before YouTube was out and
kind of overnight I went from someone
who made videos to share with my friends
someone who made a video that was seen
by millions of people and I think maybe
I didn’t realize it then but certainly
that moment was a really transitional
transformative moment in my career
because I realized making movies was a
way of sharing ideas and sharing my
perspectives with people that I
otherwise might not ever have the
opportunity to interact with when I look
back at my career I see all of these
tangents in the chant the tangents that
have always yielded success were the
ones where there was no established path
no defined route for me to take but I
went down in anyways and through that
kind of exploration I always discovered
something new and those those new things
those new entities whether they be
movies or ideas or things in my personal
life have always proven to be the most
rewarding for me the things that excite
me the most right now is is this new
kind of film making these movies that
are made by one person and they’re one
person’s perspective sharing a singular
idea and that’s exciting to me because
it’s something that has never existed
before and I think that most people
don’t
in the traditional film sense don’t
really know where that fits in but to me
it’s just kind of a really
true form of storytelling I’ve never
been a huge deer head I’ve never been
much of a tech head the majority of my
HBO series was shot on $150
point-and-shoot cameras and edited in
iMovie it’s the hard work that’s behind
it it’s the stories behind it that I
think matter there are two rules that I
always adhere to and that is to work
hard and be brave and I think the
essence of hard work is one that’s
pretty straightforward is that you’ll
never be the best looking you’ll never
be the tallest most talented most
capable you’ll never have the most money
there will always be someone who’s
better at whatever you’re doing them
with what you then you are but you can
always be the hardest-working person in
the room and I think the hardest-working
person will always win life shrinks and
expands in direct proportion to one’s
willingness to take on risk and I think
when it comes to exploring the active
exploration is the act of assuming risk
the greater risk takers a greater
Explorer at National Geographic we know
there are no limits to where or what you
can explore that’s why we’re giving away
a $50,000 prize to fund your dream
expedition visit expedition granted calm
to learn more given five stacks of high
society
what would you explore high societies
ten grand right anybody here play poker
make all kinds of films I’ve made some
feature films some television but my
favorite genre my favorite style of
films is short movies for the Internet
the Internet is my favorite place to
post my work because it’s kind of a free
democratized
accessible distribution platform
creatively having that instead of having
that someone to prove it or somebody
else sign off on your work has opened up
the doors for an entirely new genre
filmmaking maybe like 10 years ago when
I was really just making movies to share
them with my friends I made one movie in
particular where my ipod stopped working
and Apple refused to fix it and I made a
little three-minute video about that and
I posted it on the internet and it went
viral in the hugest way and this was
three years before YouTube was out and
kind of overnight I went from someone
who made videos to share with my friends
someone who made a video that was seen
by millions of people and I think maybe
I didn’t realize it then but certainly
that moment was a really transitional
transformative moment in my career
because I realized making movies was a
way of sharing ideas and sharing my
perspectives with people that I
otherwise might not ever have the
opportunity to interact with when I look
back at my career I see all of these
tangents in the chant the tangents that
have always yielded success were the
ones where there was no established path
no defined route for me to take but I
went down in anyways and through that
kind of exploration I always discovered
something new and those those new things
those new entities whether they be
movies or ideas or things in my personal
life have always proven to be the most
rewarding for me the things that excite
me the most right now is is this new
kind of film making these movies that
are made by one person and they’re one
person’s perspective sharing a singular
idea and that’s exciting to me because
it’s something that has never existed
before and I think that most people
don’t
in the traditional film sense don’t
really know where that fits in but to me
it’s just kind of a really
true form of storytelling I’ve never
been a huge deer head I’ve never been
much of a tech head the majority of my
HBO series was shot on $150
point-and-shoot cameras and edited in
iMovie it’s the hard work that’s behind
it it’s the stories behind it that I
think matter there are two rules that I
always adhere to and that is to work
hard and be brave and I think the
essence of hard work is one that’s
pretty straightforward is that you’ll
never be the best looking you’ll never
be the tallest most talented most
capable you’ll never have the most money
there will always be someone who’s
better at whatever you’re doing them
with what you then you are but you can
always be the hardest-working person in
the room and I think the hardest-working
person will always win life shrinks and
expands in direct proportion to one’s
willingness to take on risk and I think
when it comes to exploring the active
exploration is the act of assuming risk
the greater risk takers a greater
Explorer at National Geographic we know
there are no limits to where or what you
can explore that’s why we’re giving away
a $50,000 prize to fund your dream
expedition visit expedition granted calm
to learn more given five stacks of high
society
what would you explore high societies
ten grand right anybody here play poker
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