A biography for Casey Neistathasn’t been written yet.
“Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.”
“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 was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.”
“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 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.”
“Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.”
“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.”
“As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?”
“I run 50-70 miles a week and lift five or six days. It's my time.”
“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'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.”
“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.”
“As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.”
“I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.”