“Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.”

“As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.”

“I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.”

“I am so disappointed in Apple. I don't even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It's embarrassing. It's just garbage.”

“I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.”

“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.”

“I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.”

“I don't like to run, train, in groups. But racing, it's the groups that are most inspiring to me. I love racing with 52,000 people. I don't like training with any more than one person. Ever.”

“I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.”

“I made a living for 10 years making very typical TV commercials. But I always wanted to reach beyond that and do stuff that people might relate to in the way they relate to my nonbranded content.”

“I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.”

“I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.”

“I won't hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that's the honest truth. I don't think you know how it is until you've worked in a restaurant.”

“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.”

“Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.”

“If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.”

“If you type 'Salt Flats' into YouTube, you'll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won't find any that were shot in the rain.”

“I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.”

“I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.”

“My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.”

“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.”

“Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.”

“Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.”

“The idea that somebody would go to my YouTube channel and want to watch movies and then be subjected to some terrible car commercial - I don't like that.”

“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.”

“Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.”