A music video is so different to doing a movie.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.
The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.
When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.
There are different reasons to make movies.
Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.
Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.
I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.