Image-making, along with storytelling and music, is the stuff that culture is made out of.
If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.
TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.
I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.
I think I started doing more of the video probably in college. My major was multimedia, so it was probably closer to then because that wasn't really readily available and easy to do.
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.
I make pop culture.
My reputation is a media creation.
You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
About 97% of the media is created by men.
If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.
Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.
I know I am eventually going to want to write or produce.
As far as music, that's always going to be my first love and I've always loved doing music and I always will, but right now it's more into film, television and behind the scenes with writing and producing. I'm still going to keep releasing music for my fans.
I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.
You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.
I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
