For traditional marketers, and traditional advertising, it is a really scary place to be. And then for the influencers, the individuals who are the mouthpiece for it, it’s a really frightening position to be in because you have this big fat check in front of you and oftentimes you can be asked to compromise your value or your integrity to pay the rent.

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If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

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The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

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As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

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If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

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The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

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Free time is the enemy of progress

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The right time is always right now.

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It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

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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.

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Without a goal, you can’t score.

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If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

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Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

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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'.

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A shared life is a great life.

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Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

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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.

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The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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