Jay Bauman

ESTP

QUOTES

 * [On how he met Mike]: "We both used to frequent the message board of this amateur film making website and kinda bonded over the fact that we thought everyone else there was delusional about the quality of their shot-on-VHS movies...Mike was making schlock where Rich Evans beats up a doll for twenty minutes and I was making schlock about dead animals and trailer trash. I lived in Rockford, IL at the time and he was in Chicago, so at some point I suggested the idea of him and Rich Evans and some of his other film friends driving up to Rockford to help out on a movie I was making at the time."
 * "I went to film school, but didn't care for the program. It focused exclusively on experimental filmmaking and that wasn't really my style. I left the program and over the following three years after that, I shot four no-budget feature films and dozens of short films, as well as helped Mike on his projects. Those few years of non-stop guerilla filmmaking were the best training I could have had."
 * "...And then Gotham transforms into another different city in TDKR that's just New York in some shots and Pittsburgh in others. I like all those movies but the lack of concern for a connective consistency is just odd."
 * "Let the pop culture you enjoy enhance your life, not define it."
 * "I love being able to make a living making stupid videos. We have no one to answer to and nobody telling us what we can and can't do so we just shoot whatever we want, which is great. I'm pretty sure I would be miserable working as an editor or a director in the larger studio system...I've never really thought of myself as a critic; I'm just a guy who likes movies."
 * "I spend half my week in my pajamas editing videos, and the other half filming stuff. Not all those projects are personal projects that I have some sort of emotional investment in, but it sure beats working in a toll booth."
 * "I’ve always had a “fuck it, let’s just do it ourselves” attitude, so I definitely prefer having everything we make being housed on our own site. And since we’ve been doing this for so long, we’ve got a TON of content at this point, from shorts to features to music videos, so having that control over what goes up on the site is nice. If the right opportunity came along to do videos for another site, I wouldn’t immediately write it off, but I’d have to have a really good reason to justify doing it."


 * "It's hard to have a routine when you're doing different things all the time. But I try to have at least a morning routine. I'm a pretty organized person -- probably too much so."