Music Video Direction Quotes

What I loved most about 'Rhythm Nation' were the uniforms and the perfect group choreography.

I'm not a huge big fan of music video.

I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it.

The music video, Lil Nas X, he asked me to be in the 'Panini' music video. It was crazy. I was just listening to the song and I was like, okay, this is going to be my first music video but it was really fun.

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.

I was an extra in a Tia Carrere music video.

The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so many different ideas, but they need to understand what the musician wants.

I've always dreamed of doing a music video.

I love making videos for my music, you can literally do anything. It's like you can write a song about anything; you can also write a video that is the weirdest thing you can relate to the song, and I find that quite cool.

My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell.

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

If you look at the 'Casi Nada' video, I'm, like, a good girl.

Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.

Shooting the 'Torn' music video was a dream come true.

Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!

My favourite outfit is a giant bunny suit. I wore it in a music video for 'Are You One?' by the Chanteuse & the Crippled Claw and got to keep it.

Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.

I'm aware that I have a career. But, if I was the hottest in the game, songs all over the radio - let's say whoever produced made me super big. Like, that would be cool, but there would be something in me that goes, 'You only wrote the raps. You didn't make the beats. You didn't direct. You didn't do all that.'

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's 'Runaway' music video. Something inside me clicked, like, 'That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.'