Quotes About Engagement

These people that watch our MTV shows, they're not music fans. They're people that are lazy on their couch and want to watch funny videos or whatever.

Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.

I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

I've only ever played 'God of War' while we were shooting it. I've seen a lot of the videos, but while we were shooting 'God of War,' they had a green room for the actors to hang out in, and they always had the newest game on the big screen. So we'd sit there playing 'God of War' to get us into the mood.

I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.

I am so inspired by the people watching my videos and responding to them. I have learned so much from my community over the years and always love reading their feedback and their own personal stories that they share with me.

If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.

Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly.

We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic.

I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it's directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.

If you watch Justin's early videos, I never let him say, 'My name is Justin Bieber,' and then start singing - he always just sang. And the reason I did that was I wanted you to feel like you were in the room. Or maybe you were seeing something you weren't supposed to see.

Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos.

We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don't return to it.

I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.

People naturally want to retweet and engage on super funny videos and memes.

I love seeing the videos of people who go and talk to these neo-Nazis because they're like, 'I'm just here to have a conversation and understand.' Having a conversation about it and talking about your emotions without judgement. You have to be able to be completely open, because they're not going to be, but you could turn a new leaf in their life.

I never really set out to have people see my videos.

On my posts, I would tell people, 'If you like this, give it a share.' If you go online and look at my videos, you might see where I have 80,000 likes, but 525,000 shares. That's where you gain more people as followers coming in. It took me a second to learn it all, but now that I have, it's been a blessing and a curse.

I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy. The likes and retweets - that was, like, a plus.

You know, I don't sit here and watch, uh, I don't watch CMT videos and listen to country radio all the time.

The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!

I need to keep reminding myself that I don't need a million people to watch my videos, all I need is one. If one person reaches out to me and says, 'This is great, I love it, let's be friends,' I am just as content.