Max Joseph Quotes

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

The safest person, sometimes, is a stranger on the Internet who lives in a different place. If they’re a daily source of support and advice, no one really wants to lose that once they have it. If they know deep down that the person they’re talking to isn’t exactly who they say they are, it’s not worth finding out.

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what’s over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

I’ve never had a crazy online relationship that’s left me vulnerable and embarrassed and humiliated.

I don’t know why so many people seem upset about the fact that Nev Schulman and I are so against Trump.

I don’t know why we have this shame about obesity, but it’s kind of a good thing that we have this shame about obesity – we shouldn’t accept the fact that everyone is obese.

I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?

I was an English major.

I love the tradition of male coming-of-age films like ‘Saturday Night Fever‘ or ‘Mean Streets‘ or ‘Go.’ I love those films that work music into those stories.

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

I think people throw the term ‘sociopath’ around a lot without knowing what it means – but people who don’t understand that what they’re doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

The Juan McLean is great.

I was actually cyberstalked twice.

I put a lot of time and energy into studying the art of filmmaking, but I hadn’t put a lot of energy or time into the art of learning how to manage people.

I spend a lot of time hanging out with kids in their early twenties who feel like they’ve messed up and have really screwed up in a lot of ways. We spend a lot of time talking to them and saying, ‘You can change that.’

We’ve seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We’ve seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

For basically three years, I was doing ‘Catfish‘ and ‘We Are Your Friends‘ at the same time – it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you’re in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone of our national character.

I don’t think the Internet is necessarily a dangerous place. It’s only dangerous if you don’t make people earn your trust. You can’t take people at their word. You got to do a little digging and make sure to verify that you are talking to a real person or the person that you think you’re talking to.

The things I’m making for Vero are very pure. They’re from my point of view, and I’m not pulling any punches.

Electronic music has existed since the ’70s, and it’s almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

There’s something unique about coming of age in 2015 with the way the world is.

What I like so much about Vero – the app and the community – is that it offers the perfect venue to share my work and myself with like-minded, curious people and without the negativity and hate that can come in other online forums.

No one believes that they’re a bad person at the end of the day.

The more we are involved in social media, the easier it is for someone to lie about who they are and to kind of fabricate a story about them, fabricate a life that is grander than the one that they lead.

When I was 19, I did an internship in Los Angeles and lived with a friend of mine in the Valley.

This idea that in America you can be anyone you want – you can reinvent yourself. Well, I think that the Internet has maybe taken that kind of American idea and has democratized it for the world.

The thing I really love about ‘Saturday Night Fever’ is that the movie is a gritty drama. Most people just remember the amazing, whimsical fantasy dance scenes, but then, when you watch it again, it’s raw.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

Most people who recognize me don’t even know my name. They just yell out ”Catfish!” or ‘Where‘s Nev?’ or sometimes just ‘Nev!’

There is a lot of sadness in America.

I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.